More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 118

The old gentleman told him to dismount and to go in to have some refreshment, and to put his horse in the stable, such as it was.

Who acts: old gentleman, horse · What happens: tell, dismount, go in, have, put, be · To what, where: king, refreshment, horse, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old gentleman, horse), 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	3 gentleman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gentleman	amod
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dismount	mark
7	dismount	dismount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dismount	conj
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 refreshment	det
15	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 put	mark
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horse	nmod:poss
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 stable	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stable	det
24	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 such	punct
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stable	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stable	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old gentleman		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dismount not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old gentleman not said here				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	go in	to-infinitive	the old gentleman not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive	the old gentleman not said here	some refreshment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Patient
5	put	to-infinitive	the old gentleman not said here	gentleman's horse		the stable	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in stable=Destination
6	be	past	horse				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: «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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