The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 99

So when, as before, the king came down to the stables and praised the cleverness of their brother, the young men told him of that other marvel possessed by the witch, the goat with the golden horns.

Who acts: king, young men · What happens: come down, praise, tell, possess · To what, where: stables, cleverness, king, other marvel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, young men), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 before	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 before	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 before	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 before	case
5	before	before	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 before	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 stables	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stables	det
13	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 praised	cc
15	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cleverness	det
17	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 praised	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 brother	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleverness	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 marvel	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 marvel	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 marvel	amod
30	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obl
31	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 marvel	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 witch	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 witch	det
34	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 possessed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 goat	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 goat	det
37	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 marvel	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 horns	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 horns	det
40	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 horns	amod
41	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the king			the stables	before, down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
2	praise	past	the king not said here	the cleverness of brothers's brother				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the young men		king		of that other marvel and the goat; with the golden horns	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	possess	participle		that other marvel and the goat not said here			by the witch	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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