The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 63

Now the Afghans began to look a little uncomfortable, but Moti seemed so determined to keep the horse that they resolved to appeal to the law, so they went off and laid a complaint before the king that Moti had stolen one of their horses and would not give it up nor pay for it.

Who acts: Afghans, Moti, horses · What happens: begin, look, seem, keep, resolve, appeal · To what, where: horse, complaint, Moti

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Afghans, Moti, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Afghans	det
3	Afghans	Afghan	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 uncomfortable	obl:unmarked
9	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
12	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 determined	advmod
15	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 determined	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 resolved	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 resolved	nsubj
22	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 appeal	mark
24	appeal	appeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 resolved	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 law	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 law	det
27	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 appeal	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 went	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laid	cc
34	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 complaint	det
36	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obj
37	before	before	ADP	_	39 king	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 king	det
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 stolen	mark
41	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 stolen	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stolen	aux
43	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 laid	advcl
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 stolen	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 horses	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 horses	nmod:poss
47	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 give	cc
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 give	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 give	advmod
51	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 went	conj
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 give	obj
53	up	up	ADP	_	51 give	compound:prt
54	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	55 pay	cc
55	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 give	conj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 it	case
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 pay	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Afghans		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	the Afghans not said here			uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	seem	past	Moti			determined property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	Moti not said here	the horse			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	resolve	past	horses = horse				tree rules
6	appeal	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here			to the law	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to law=Experiencer
7	go off	past	horses = horse				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
8	lay	past	horses = horse not said here	a complaint	before the king		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent complaint=Theme before king=Destination
9	steal	past · perfect · passive		Moti			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Theme
10	not give up	would	horses = horse not said here	complaint			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
11	pay	infinitive	horses = horse not said here			for complaint	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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