The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 95

And the king of that country gave into Ian Direach's hands the care of his horses, and never before did their skins shine so brightly or was their pace so swift.

Who acts: king, skins, horses · What happens: give, shine, be, care · To what, where: care, hands, swift, pace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, skins, horses), 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	_	7 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 hands	case
9	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Direach	compound
10	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Direach	case
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gave	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 care	det
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 horses	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 horses	nmod:poss
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 care	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shine	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shine	cc
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 before	advmod
21	before	before	ADV	_	25 shine	advmod
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 shine	aux
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 skins	nmod:poss
24	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shine	nsubj
25	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 brightly	advmod
27	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	25 shine	advmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 pace	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pace	cop
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pace	nmod:poss
31	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shine	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 swift	advmod
33	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shine	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king of that country	the care of Direach's horses	Ian Direach's hands		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	shine	past · do-support	king's skins	swift		before, brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	king's skins not said here	king's pace			tree rules
4	care		Direach's horses				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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