The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 123

His best horse was saddled, food placed in is saddle-bag, and with some money tied up in his waist-band, he was ready to start.

Who acts: food, Nur · What happens: saddle, place, be, tie up, start · To what, where: best horse, food, saddle bag, money, waist band

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, Nur), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saddled	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saddled	aux:pass
5	saddled	saddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bag	punct
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bag	nsubj
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 food	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 placed	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bag	cop
11	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bag	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 saddle	punct
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saddled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 money	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 money	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 money	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saddled	parataxis
19	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 money	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 tied	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 band	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 band	nmod:poss
23	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 band	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 waist	punct
25	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tied	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ready	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saddled	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 start	mark
31	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	saddle	past · passive		Nur's best horse			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	place	participle		food not said here			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	food	saddle bag			tree rules
4	tie up	participle		some money not said here	Nur's waist band		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	Nur			ready property	tree rules
6	start	to-infinitive	Nur not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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