The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 86

Only too soon Labakan recognised his own old horse, Murva, and the real Prince Omar, but having once told a lie he made up his mind not to own his deceit.

Who acts: Labakan, having, horse, lie · What happens: recognise, have, tell, make up, not own, mind · To what, where: own old horse, lie, mind, deceit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Labakan, having, horse, lie), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 recognised	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 recognised	advmod
4	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 recognised	nsubj
5	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognised	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Murva	punct
11	Murva	Murva	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 horse	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Omar	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Omar	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Omar	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Omar	amod
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Omar	nmod:desc
17	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 recognised	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
20	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 told	csubj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 having	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognised	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lie	det
24	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lie	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 made	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	iobj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 own	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 own	mark
32	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 deceit	nmod:poss
34	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 own	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	Labakan	Labakan's own old horse		the real Omar Prince obl; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
2	have	gerund				once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	having	a lie	horse's mind		tree rules
4	make up	past	horse	a lie not said here			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lie=Pivot
5	not own not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lie not said here	horse's deceit			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deceit=Theme
6	mind		horse				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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