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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 48

He found all the guards fast asleep, and, slipping into the horse’s stall, he seized it by the bridle and led it out; but, unfortunately, before they had got quite clear of the stables a gadfly stung the horse and caused it to switch its tail, whereby it touched the wall.

Who acts: horse, guards, gadfly · What happens: find, slip, seize, lead out, get, sting · To what, where: guards, stall, horse, gadfly, tail, wall

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, guards, gadfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjdet:predetdetobjadvmodamodpunctccpunctadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblccconjobjcompound:prtpunctccpunctadvmodpunctmarknsubjauxparataxisadvmodxcompcasedetobldetnsubjacl:relcldetobjccconjobjmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctrootHePRONfoundVERBallDETtheDETguardsNOUNfastADVasleepADJ,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTslippingVERBintoADPtheDEThorseNOUN’sPARTstallNOUN,PUNCThePRONseizedVERBitPRONbyADPtheDETbridleNOUNandCCONJledVERBitPRONoutADP;PUNCTbutCCONJ,PUNCTunfortunatelyADV,PUNCTbeforeSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXgotVERBquiteADVclearADJofADPtheDETstablesNOUNaDETgadflyNOUNstungVERBtheDEThorseNOUNandCCONJcausedVERBitPRONtoPARTswitchVERBitsPRONtailNOUN,PUNCTwherebyADVitPRONtouchedVERBtheDETwallNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foundnsubj
2foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3allallDETPronType=Tot5 guardsdet:predet
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 guardsdet
5guardsguardNOUNNumber=Plur2 foundobj
6fastfastADVDegree=Pos7 asleepadvmod
7asleepasleepADJDegree=Pos5 guardsamod
8,,PUNCT_11 slippingpunct
9andandCCONJ_11 slippingcc
10,,PUNCT_11 slippingpunct
11slippingslipVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 foundadvcl
12intointoADP_16 stallcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 horsedet
14horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing16 stallnmod:poss
15’s'sPART_14 horsecase
16stallstallNOUNNumber=Sing11 slippingobl
17,,PUNCT_19 seizedpunct
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 seizednsubj
19seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundparataxis
20ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 seizedobj
21bybyADP_23 bridlecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 bridledet
23bridlebridleNOUNNumber=Sing19 seizedobl
24andandCCONJ_25 ledcc
25ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 seizedconj
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 ledobj
27outoutADP_25 ledcompound:prt
28;;PUNCT_36 gotpunct
29butbutCCONJ_36 gotcc
30,,PUNCT_31 unfortunatelypunct
31unfortunatelyunfortunatelyADV_36 gotadvmod
32,,PUNCT_36 gotpunct
33beforebeforeSCONJ_36 gotmark
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs36 gotnsubj
35hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 gotaux
36gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 foundparataxis
37quitequiteADV_38 clearadvmod
38clearclearADJDegree=Pos36 gotxcomp
39ofofADP_41 stablescase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 stablesdet
41stablesstableNOUNNumber=Plur38 clearobl
42aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art43 gadflydet
43gadflygadflyNOUNNumber=Sing44 stungnsubj
44stungstingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 stablesacl:relcl
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 horsedet
46horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing44 stungobj
47andandCCONJ_48 causedcc
48causedcauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundconj
49ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 causedobj
50totoPART_51 switchmark
51switchswitchVERBVerbForm=Inf48 causedxcomp
52itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs53 tailnmod:poss
53tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing51 switchobj
54,,PUNCT_57 touchedpunct
55wherebywherebyADVPronType=Int57 touchedadvmod
56ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs57 touchednsubj
57touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin53 tailacl:relcl
58thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art59 walldet
59wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing57 touchedobj
60..PUNCT_2 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpasthorseall guardsvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Topic
2slipgerundhorse not said herethe horse's stallvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3seizepasthorsestallby the bridlevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4lead outpasthorse not said herestallvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5getpast · perfectguards = guardclear, unfortunately propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6stingpasta gadflythe horsevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer
7causepasthorse not said heregadflytree rules
8switchto-infinitivegadfly not said heregadfly's tailvn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
9touchpastgadflythe wallwhereby propertyvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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