The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 42

However, he soon found out that walking made him ridiculous, so at last he bought a quiet, steady old horse, which he managed to get cheap.

Who acts: Prince, quiet steady old horse · What happens: find out, walk, make, buy, manage, get · To what, where: Prince, quiet steady old horse, last

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, quiet steady old horse), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 found	compound:prt
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
8	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bought	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 bought	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 horse	det
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 horse	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quiet	punct
21	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 horse	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 horse	amod
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 managed	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 managed	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 managed	nsubj
27	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 horse	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 managed	xcomp
30	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	past	Prince			however, soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	walk	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past		Prince		ridiculous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	buy	past	Prince	a quiet steady old horse	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at last=Asset
5	manage	past	a quiet steady old horse				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	get	to-infinitive	a quiet steady old horse not said here			cheap property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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