English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 4

And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coal-black horse with fiery eyes, that stood at the door; and soon they were going at a rare pace, Dame Goody holding on to the old fellow like grim death.

Who acts: Dame, fellow, fiery eyes, eyes · What happens: get down, whisk up, stand, go, hold on · To what, where: fellow, Dame, door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, fellow, fiery eyes, eyes), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 whisked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whisked	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whisked	nsubj
10	whisked	whisk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whisked	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 whisked	compound:prt
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 horse	mark
14	to	to	ADP	_	20 horse	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 horse	amod
17	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 black	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 coal	punct
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 horse	amod
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whisked	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 horse	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eyes	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 going	cc
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 going	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 whisked	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 pace	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 pace	det
38	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pace	amod
39	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Dame	punct
41	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 pace	appos
42	Goody	Goody	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Dame	flat
43	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 going	xcomp
44	on	on	ADP	_	43 holding	compound:prt
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 fellow	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fellow	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fellow	amod
48	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 holding	obl
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 death	case
50	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 death	amod
51	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fellow	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 whisked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get down	past	Dame		fellow		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
2	whisk up	past	fellow	Dame				vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	stand	past	fiery eyes			the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	go	past · progressive	eyes = eye				at a rare pace; soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hold on	gerund	eyes = eye not said here				to the old fellow like grim death	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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