The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 48

'Saddle the colt with the golden saddle, and bridle her with the silver bridle, and sling the basket with the falcon over your shoulders, and hold the White Sword of Light with its back against your nose.

Who acts: you, sling · What happens: saddle, bridle, sle, hold · To what, where: colt, wife, basket, White Sword

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sling), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Saddle	punct
2	Saddle	saddle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colt	det
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Saddle	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 saddle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saddle	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saddle	amod
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Saddle	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bridle	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bridle	cc
11	bridle	bridle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Saddle	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bridle	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 bridle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridle	det
15	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bridle	amod
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bridle	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hold	cc
19	sling	sle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 hold	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 basket	det
21	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sling	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 falcon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 falcon	det
24	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sling	obl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 shoulders	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulders	nmod:poss
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 falcon	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hold	cc
30	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Saddle	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sword	det
32	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Sword	amod
33	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hold	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Light	case
35	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Sword	nmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 back	nmod:poss
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hold	obl
39	against	against	ADP	_	41 nose	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 nose	nmod:poss
41	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 back	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Saddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	saddle	imperative	you not said here	the colt		with the golden saddle	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent colt=Destination with saddle=Theme
2	bridle	infinitive	you not said here		wife	with the silver bridle	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with bridle=Theme
3	sle	gerund		the basket		with the falcon over your shoulders	tree rules
4	hold	infinitive	sling	the White Sword of Light		with Sword's back against your nose	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

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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