The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 83

But first he went to the stables and sought out the horse, and said to him: 'It is to you that I owe my life and my crown.

Who acts: Jose, condition, I, my · What happens: go, seek out, say, be, owe, crown · To what, where: stables, horse, Jose, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jose, condition, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stables	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stables	det
7	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sought	cc
9	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 sought	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 you	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 you	punct
20	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 you	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 you	cop
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 said	ccomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 owe	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 owe	nsubj
26	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 life	nmod:poss
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 owe	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crown	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 crown	nmod:poss
31	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 life	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jose			the stables	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
2	seek out	past	Jose not said here	the horse				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Jose not said here		Jose			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is	present	condition				to you	tree rules
5	owe	present	I	my life and my crown				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	crown		my					nom crown «communication 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 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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