More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 95

And then he sent them for rich clothes, and jewels, which he put on; and he ordered them to saddle the white horse, with gold and silk, that he might ride to meet the King.

Who acts: One, jewels · What happens: send, put on, order, saddle, ride, meet · To what, where: hair, white horse, King

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, jewels), 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	_	4 sent	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 clothes	case
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothes	amod
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 sent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jewels	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jewels	cc
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clothes	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 put	nsubj:outer
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jewels	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ordered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ordered	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ordered	nsubj
20	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ordered	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 saddle	mark
23	saddle	saddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ordered	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horse	amod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saddle	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gold	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saddle	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 silk	cc
31	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gold	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ride	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 ride	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ride	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 ride	aux
36	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saddle	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 meet	mark
38	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 ride	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 King	det
40	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 meet	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	One	hair		then	for rich clothes and jewels	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	put on	past	jewels					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	order	past	One		hair			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	saddle not said to happen	to-infinitive	One not said here		the white horse		with gold and silk	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with gold=Theme
5	ride	might	One					tree rules
6	meet	to-infinitive	One not said here	the King				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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