The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 44

So Paperarello examined the horses carefully, but instead of picking out one of the splendid well-groomed creatures, whose skin shone like satin, he chose a poor lame thing, put a saddle on it, and rode after the other men-at-arms who were attending the king.

Who acts: Paperarello, poor lame thing, arms · What happens: examine, pick out, groom, shine, choose, put · To what, where: horses, skin, poor lame thing, saddle, king

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 (Paperarello, poor lame thing, arms), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 examined	advmod
2	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 examined	nsubj
3	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 examined	obj
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 examined	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 picking	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 one	nsubj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 picking	compound:prt
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 examined	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 creatures	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 creatures	det
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 groomed	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	groomed	groom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 skin	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 skin	nmod:poss
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 creatures	appos
24	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 skin	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 satin	case
26	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shone	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 chose	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chose	nsubj
29	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 examined	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
32	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chose	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
35	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thing	acl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 saddle	det
37	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 put	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rode	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rode	cc
42	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 examined	conj
43	after	after	ADP	_	46 men	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 men	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 men	amod
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 rode	obl
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 arms	punct
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 arms	case
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 at	punct
50	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 men	nmod
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 attending	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 attending	aux
53	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 arms	acl:relcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 king	det
55	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 attending	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	examine	past	Paperarello	the horses			one of the splendid groomed creatures obl; carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	pick out	gerund						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	groom	participle					well property	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	shine	participle		the splendid groomed creatures's skin not said here			like satin	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	choose	past	Paperarello	a poor lame thing				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
6	put	infinitive	a poor lame thing not said here	a saddle			on horse	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on it=Destination
7	ride	past	Paperarello not said here			after the other men at arms		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	attend	past · progressive	arms		the king			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Goal

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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