The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 18

The king was delighted when he was told what the horse had said, and took the animal at once to the stables, and placed it in his own particular stall.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, tell, say, take, place · To what, where: king, horse, animal, stables, own particular stall · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delighted	advcl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 told	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 animal	det
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 took	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 stables	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stables	det
23	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 took	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 placed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 placed	cc
26	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 placed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 stall	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stall	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stall	amod
31	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stall	amod
32	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			delighted property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the horse			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner
4	take	past		the animal	the stables		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to stable=Destination
5	place	past		animal	horse's own particular stall		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stall=Destination

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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