The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 7

But the youth declared that it was the horse, and the horse only, that he desired, and in the end the old man gave way.

Who acts: youth, way, old man · What happens: declare, be, desire, give · To what, where: horse, way, end

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 (youth, way, old man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 horse	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 horse	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 horse	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 horse	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 horse	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	13 horse	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 desired	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 desired	nsubj
18	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	conj
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the youth	the horse		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	way	the horse		tree rules
3	desire	past	youth			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	give	past	the old man	way	in the end	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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