The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 5

When he had roamed about for some time he came to the King’s palace, where he obtained a place under the coachman; and very brisk and active he was, and the horses that he looked after were so fat and sleek, that they shone again.

Who acts: man, horses · What happens: roam, come, obtain, be, look after, shine · To what, where: time, place, coachman

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 roamed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roamed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roamed	aux
4	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 roamed	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roamed	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 palace	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obtained	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 obtained	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 obtained	nsubj
19	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 palace	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obtained	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 coachman	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coachman	det
24	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obtained	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 brisk	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brisk	cc
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 brisk	advmod
28	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roamed	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 active	cc
30	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brisk	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 active	cop
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fat	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fat	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 horses	det
36	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fat	nsubj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 looked	nsubj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 looked	nsubj
39	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 horses	acl:relcl
40	after	after	ADP	_	39 looked	compound:prt
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fat	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 fat	advmod
43	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brisk	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sleek	cc
45	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fat	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 shone	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 shone	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 shone	nsubj
49	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fat	advcl
50	again	again	ADV	_	49 shone	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 roamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	past · perfect	man			time	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	man	some time not said here			to the King's palace	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3	obtain	past	man	a place	the coachman			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	is	past	man not said here				active property	tree rules
5	look after	past	the horses					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the horses				fat property	tree rules
7	be		the horses not said here					tree rules
8	shine	past	horses = horse			again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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