The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 13

‘If you will procure me the best shoes for my horse, and the most magnificent saddle and bridle that can be found,’ said the youth, ‘you may have all my twelve mares just as they are standing out on the hill, and their twelve foals into the bargain.’

Who acts: you, mares · What happens: procure, find, say, have, stand out · To what, where: best shoes, me, magnificent saddle, youth, twelve mares, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mares), 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	_	5 procure	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 procure	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 procure	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 procure	aux
5	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 procure	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoes	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 shoes	amod
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 procure	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saddle	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saddle	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 saddle	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 magnificent	advmod
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saddle	amod
18	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 procure	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bridle	cc
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saddle	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 found	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 found	aux:pass
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 saddle	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 procure	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 procure	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youth	det
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 mares	det:predet
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mares	nmod:poss
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 mares	nummod
38	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	obj
39	just	just	ADV	_	43 standing	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 standing	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 standing	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 standing	aux
43	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 have	advcl
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 standing	compound:prt
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 hill	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hill	det
47	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 standing	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 foals	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 foals	cc
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 foals	nmod:poss
51	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 foals	nummod
52	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	parataxis
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 bargain	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 bargain	det
55	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 foals	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 foals	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 foals	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	procure a condition, not said to happen	future	you	the best shoes	me		the magnificent saddle and bridle obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary shoe=Theme
2	find	can · passive		the magnificent saddle and bridle				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past		the youth				tree rules
4	have	may	you	my twelve mares				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient
5	stand out	present · progressive	mares = mare			the hill		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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