The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 110

But when they sat down to the marriage-feast, the bridegroom arose and went down to the stable, for he said that he had forgotten something which he must go and look to.

Who acts: Princess, bridegroom · What happens: sit down, arise, go down, say, forget, go · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bridegroom), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sat	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 marriage	punct
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arose	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bridegroom	det
13	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arose	nsubj
14	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arose	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stable	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stable	det
20	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 said	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 forgotten	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 forgotten	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 forgotten	aux
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 forgotten	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 go	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 something	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 look	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Princess		to the marriage feast; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arise	past	the bridegroom			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go down	past	the bridegroom not said here		to the stable; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	bridegroom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	forget	past · perfect	bridegroom	something		tree rules
6	go	must				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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