The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 59

When I was a lad I lived with horses, and could ride anything for twenty miles round.'

Who acts: I, lad · What happens: be, live, ride · To what, where: lad, anything

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lad), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lad	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 horses	case
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ride	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ride	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ride	aux
13	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	parataxis
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 ride	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 miles	case
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 miles	nummod
17	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ride	obl
18	round	round	ADV	_	13 ride	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ride	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a lad		tree rules
2	live	past	a lad		with horses	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with horse=Location
3	ride	could		anything	for twenty miles; round property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Location

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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