The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 55

As on the day before, he halted on the road, and sat down to make his clay soldiers; then a second time he wished himself armour, sword, and a horse, all sharper and better than those he had previously had, and galloped after the rest.

Who acts: king · What happens: halt, sit down, make, wish, have, gallop · To what, where: road, clay soldiers, 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 (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	As	as	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 halted	obl
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 day	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 halted	nsubj
8	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 halted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 halted	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 soldiers	nmod:poss
19	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soldiers	compound
20	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 make	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 wished	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 wished	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wished	obl:unmarked
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	nsubj
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 halted	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 wished	obj
29	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wished	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sword	punct
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 armour	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sharper	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sharper	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 horse	det
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sharper	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sharper	punct
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 sharper	det
38	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 wished	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 better	cc
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 sharper	conj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 those	case
42	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 sharper	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 had	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 had	aux
45	previously	previously	ADV	_	46 had	advmod
46	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 those	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 galloped	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 galloped	cc
49	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wished	advcl
50	after	after	ADP	_	52 rest	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 rest	det
52	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 galloped	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	halt	past	king		the road	day		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	sit down	past	king not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's clay soldiers				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soldier=Product
4	wish	past	king	king		then; time		tree rules
5	have	past · perfect	king				previously property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	gallop	past	king not said here			after the rest		vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: «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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