The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 17

“Do not sell me, but ask the king to take me to his stable, and feed me there; then his other horses will become just as beautiful as I.”

Who acts: you, other horses · What happens: not sell, ask, take, feed, become · To what, where: young man, king, stable

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other horses), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sell	advmod
4	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ask	cc
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ask	xcomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 stable	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stable	nmod:poss
16	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feed	cc
19	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 feed	obj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 feed	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 become	advmod
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horses	nmod:poss
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horses	amod
26	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 become	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sell	parataxis
29	just	just	ADV	_	31 beautiful	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 I.	case
33	I.	i.	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beautiful	obl
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		the young man = man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the king				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the young man = man		king's stable			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to stable=Destination
4	feed in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the young man = man	there			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	become in a quote	future	king's other horses				then	beautiful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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