The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 77

Meanwhile the old man rode off on his new purchase, and when he came to a smithy he asked the smith to forge shoes for the horse.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: ride off, come, ask, forge, purchase · To what, where: new purchase, smithy, smith, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, man), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 rode	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 purchase	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 purchase	nmod:poss
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 purchase	amod
10	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 smithy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 smithy	det
18	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 smith	det
22	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 forge	mark
24	forge	forge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 forge	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 horse	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horse	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forge	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride off	past	the old man		man's new purchase	meanwhile property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	man		a smithy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	man	the smith			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent smith=Recipient clause=Topic
4	forge not said to happen	to-infinitive		shoes		for the horse	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shoe=Material for horse=Beneficiary
5	purchase		man				nom purchase «act 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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