The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 24

At last the groom declared that the young man had boasted that he could find the king’s war horse which had strayed into the forest several years ago, and had not been heard of since.

Who acts: last groom, young man, groom · What happens: declare, boast, find, stray, not hear · To what, where: war horse, forest · 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 (last groom, young man, groom), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 groom	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 groom	det
4	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	nsubj
5	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 boasted	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boasted	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boasted	aux
11	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 declared	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 boasted	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horse	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 king	case
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horse	compound
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 strayed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 strayed	aux
23	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 horse	acl:relcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 forest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strayed	obl
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ago	obl:unmarked
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	23 strayed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heard	cc
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 heard	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 heard	aux:pass
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 declared	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 since	case
37	since	since	ADV	_	35 heard	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the last groom				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	boast speech: other	past · perfect	the young man				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	could	groom	the king's war horse			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
4	stray	past · perfect · passive		the king's war horse	the forest	ago property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	not hear	past · perfect · passive	the last groom not said here			since property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

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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