The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 86

It was market day, and he met with many people he knew, and it was getting quite late when he turned into the inn yard, and bade an ostler saddle his horse, and bring it round directly.

Who acts: mind, father, bade · What happens: be, meet, know, get, turn, saddle · To what, where: market day, many people, horse, mind

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, father, bade), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 day	cop
3	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 met	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 day	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 met	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 people	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 getting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 getting	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 getting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 getting	aux
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 met	advcl
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 late	advmod
20	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 getting	advmod
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 turned	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 getting	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 yard	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 yard	det
26	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yard	compound
27	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saddle	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 saddle	cc
30	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saddle	nsubj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ostler	det
32	ostler	ostler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saddle	nsubj
33	saddle	saddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turned	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 horse	nmod:poss
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saddle	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bring	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bring	cc
38	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 saddle	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bring	obj
40	round	round	ADV	_	38 bring	advmod
41	directly	directly	ADV	_	38 bring	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mind	market day			tree rules
2	meet	past	father	market day not said here		with many people	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme with people=Instrument
3	know	past	father	many people not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
4	get	past · progressive	mind			late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	turn	past	father			into the inn yard	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into yard=Trajectory
6	saddle	infinitive	bade		father's horse		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
7	bring	infinitive	bade not said here	mind		directly, round property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent 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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