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The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 38

But, true to his old friend’s request, he took the horses with him on his next journey, and eventually presented them safely to the princess.

Who acts: man, old friend · What happens: take, present, request, journey · To what, where: horses, next journey, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old friend), 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

ccpunctadvclcasenmod:possamodnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjdetobjcaseoblcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccadvmodconjobjadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJ,PUNCTtrueADJtoADPhisPRONoldADJfriendNOUN’sPARTrequestNOUN,PUNCThePRONtookVERBtheDEThorsesNOUNwithADPhimPRONonADPhisPRONnextADJjourneyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJeventuallyADVpresentedVERBthemPRONsafelyADVtoADPtheDETprincessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_12 tookcc
2,,PUNCT_3 truepunct
3truetrueADJDegree=Pos12 tookadvcl
4totoADP_9 requestcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 friendnmod:poss
6oldoldADJDegree=Pos7 friendamod
7friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing9 requestnmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 friendcase
9requestrequestNOUNNumber=Sing3 trueobl
10,,PUNCT_12 tookpunct
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 tooknsubj
12tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 horsesdet
14horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur12 tookobj
15withwithADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 tookobl
17ononADP_20 journeycase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 journeynmod:poss
19nextnextADJDegree=Pos20 journeyamod
20journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing12 tookobl
21,,PUNCT_24 presentedpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 presentedcc
23eventuallyeventuallyADV_24 presentedadvmod
24presentedpresentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookconj
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 presentedobj
26safelysafelyADV_24 presentedadvmod
27totoADP_29 princesscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 princessdet
29princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing24 presentedobl
30..PUNCT_12 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastmanthe horsesman's next journeywith personvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on journey=Destination
2presentpastman not said herehorses = horsethe princesseventually, safely propertyvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to princess=Recipient
3requestman's old friendnom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4journeymannom journey «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 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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