The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 54

“I have been taught how to manage a horse, to draw a sword, and to throw a lance some sixty paces, but I never learnt to sew, and such a thing would have been thought beneath the notice of the pupil of Elfi Bey, the ruler of Cairo.”

Who acts: Labakan · What happens: teach, manage, draw, throw, not learn, sew · To what, where: Labakan, horse, sword, lance, thing, pupil

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 taught	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taught	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 taught	aux:pass
5	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 manage	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 manage	mark
8	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taught	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manage	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 draw	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 draw	mark
13	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 manage	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sword	det
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 draw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 throw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 throw	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 throw	mark
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taught	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lance	det
21	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throw	obj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 paces	det
23	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 paces	nummod
24	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 learnt	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 learnt	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 learnt	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 learnt	advmod
29	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taught	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sew	mark
31	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 learnt	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thought	cc
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 thing	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thing	det
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thought	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 thought	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 thought	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 thought	aux:pass
40	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 taught	conj
41	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	43 notice	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 notice	det
43	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thought	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 pupil	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 pupil	det
46	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 notice	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Elfi	case
48	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 pupil	nmod
49	Bey	Bey	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Elfi	flat
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 ruler	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ruler	det
52	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 notice	appos
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 Cairo	case
54	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 ruler	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Labakan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	manage in a quote	to-infinitive	Labakan not said here	a horse		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	draw in a quote	to-infinitive	Labakan not said here	a sword		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	throw in a quote	to-infinitive		a lance		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lance=Destination pace=Theme
5	not learn in a quote	past	Labakan			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sew in a quote	to-infinitive	Labakan not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	think speech: other in a quote	would · perfect · passive		such thing	beneath the notice of the pupil of Elfi	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	notice in a quote			the pupil of Elfi		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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