The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 70

‘Take that horse which is grazing yonder,’ she said, ‘and a suit of men’s garments, and place them near the man, and pour some of this ointment near his heart.

Who acts: horse · What happens: take, graze, say, pour · To what, where: horse, some, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grazing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grazing	aux
7	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 horse	acl:relcl
8	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	7 grazing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 suit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 suit	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 suit	det
17	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 garments	case
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 garments	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 men	case
21	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 suit	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 place	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 place	cc
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suit	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 man	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pour	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pour	cc
31	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 pour	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 ointment	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 ointment	det
35	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 some	nmod
36	near	near	ADP	_	38 heart	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heart	nmod:poss
38	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pour	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive			that horse			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
2	graze	present · progressive	that horse				yonder property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pour	infinitive	horse not said here	some		man's heart		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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