Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 8

The poor Boy was much terrified at this untoward event, and did all he could to stop his horse by pulling the bridle and speaking to it, but with no avail.

Who acts: poor Boy, Boy · What happens: be, do, stop, pull, speak · To what, where: untoward event, all, horse, bridle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Boy, Boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Boy	amod
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 event	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 event	det
9	untoward	untoward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 event	amod
10	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 terrified	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 did	cc
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 did	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stop	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stop	mark
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 all	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 horse	nmod:poss
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stop	obj
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 pulling	mark
22	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stop	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bridle	det
24	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pulling	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 speaking	cc
26	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pulling	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 speaking	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 avail	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 avail	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 avail	case
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 avail	det
33	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 terrified	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor Boy			this untoward event	no avail conj; terrified property	tree rules
2	do	past	the poor Boy not said here	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	stop	could	Boy	Boy's horse				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector horse=Eventuality
4	pull	gerund	Boy not said here	the bridle				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme
5	speak speech: other	gerund	Boy not said here		horse			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 8

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 8