The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 43

The king gave him leave, and told him that he might go to the stable and take any horse he liked from the stables.

Who acts: king · What happens: give, leave, tell, go, take, like · To what, where: Paperarello, king, stable, horse, stables · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 stable	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stable	det
16	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	nsubj
22	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 horse	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 stables	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stables	det
25	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 liked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	the king		Paperarello		tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	the king not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the king not said here		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	might	king			the stable	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
5	take	infinitive	king not said here		any horse		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
6	like	past	king	any horse not said here		the stables	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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