Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 28

The horse was pretty well unbroken, and he set to making a terrible noise through the stable.

Who acts: horse, Conall · What happens: be, set, make · To what, where: terrible noise, stable

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Conall), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unbroken	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unbroken	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 unbroken	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 unbroken	advmod
6	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unbroken	conj
11	to	to	SCONJ	_	12 making	mark
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 set	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 noise	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 noise	amod
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 stable	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stable	det
18	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unbroken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horse			pretty, unbroken, well property	tree rules
2	set	past	Conall				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	gerund	Conall not said here	a terrible noise	the stable		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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