The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 33

And when next the king came to see his horses they began to speak of Pinkel and his marvellous cunning, and how he had contrived to steal the lantern and the goat, which nobody else would have been able to do.

Who acts: horses, king, lantern · What happens: come, see, begin, speak, contrive, steal · To what, where: horses, lantern · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, king, lantern), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	next	next	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Pinkel	case
16	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 speak	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cunning	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cunning	nmod:poss
19	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cunning	amod
20	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Pinkel	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 contrived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 contrived	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 contrived	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 contrived	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 contrived	aux
26	contrived	contrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 began	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 steal	mark
28	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 contrived	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lantern	det
30	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 steal	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 goat	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 goat	det
33	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lantern	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 able	nsubj
36	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 able	nsubj
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 nobody	advmod
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 able	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 able	cop
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lantern	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 do	mark
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	horses = horse not said here		next the king	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme next king=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here	king's horses		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
3	begin	past	horses = horse			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here		of Pinkel and king's marvellous cunning	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	contrive	past · perfect	king			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	steal	to-infinitive	king not said here	the lantern and the goat		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lantern=Theme
7	is	would · perfect	the lantern and the goat		able property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	the lantern and the goat not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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