The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 45

In a short time he stopped, and said to them: “My horse can go no further; you must go on to the war without me, and I will stay here, and make some little clay soldiers, and will play at a battle.”

Who acts: king, horse, arms · What happens: stop, say, go, go on, stay, make · To what, where: arms, little clay soldiers, battle · 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, horse, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 further	advmod
19	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 go	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
24	on	on	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 war	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 war	det
27	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stay	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 stay	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stay	aux
34	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 stay	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
38	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	parataxis
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 soldiers	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 soldiers	amod
41	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 soldiers	compound
42	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 make	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 play	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 play	cc
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 play	aux
46	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 make	conj
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 battle	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 battle	det
49	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 play	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	king				time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here		arms = arm				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	can	My horse					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on in a quote	must	arms = arm					to the war; without king	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stay in a quote	future	king			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make in a quote	present		some little clay soldiers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soldier=Product
7	play in a quote	future				a battle			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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