The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 3

The king began to revive at these hopeful words, and took Moti off to his stable where he bade him choose for himself any horse he liked.

Who acts: king · What happens: begin, revive, take, bade, choose, like · To what, where: hopeful words, Moti, stable, horse

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 revive	mark
5	revive	revive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 words	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
8	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 revive	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
13	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 Moti	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 stable	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stable	nmod:poss
17	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 took	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 bade	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stable	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bade	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 choose	obl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choose	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 liked	nsubj
28	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 horse	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the king				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	revive	to-infinitive	the king not said here		this hopeful words		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	take	past		Moti	Moti's stable		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moti=Theme to stable=Destination
4	bade	past	king	Moti			tree rules
5	choose	infinitive	king not said here	any horse		for Moti	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
6	like	past	king	any horse not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=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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