The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 112

First the eldest, and then the second, and so on according to their age, and he was extremely careful to lay each head at the tail of the foal to which it had belonged, and when that was done, all the foals became princes again.

Who acts: bridegroom, head, foals · What happens: accord, be, lay, belong, do, become · To what, where: head, tail, that, princes

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 (bridegroom, head, foals), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 eldest	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eldest	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 second	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 second	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 second	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 second	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 eldest	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 age	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 age	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 age	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 age	case
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 age	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 age	nmod:poss
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 second	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 careful	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 careful	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 careful	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 careful	cop
21	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	22 careful	advmod
22	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 age	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 lay	mark
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	advcl
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 tail	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tail	det
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 foal	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foal	det
32	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tail	nmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 belonged	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 belonged	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 belonged	aux
37	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 foal	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 done	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 done	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 done	advmod
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 done	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux:pass
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lay	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 foals	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 foals	det
47	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 became	nsubj
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	parataxis
49	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 became	xcomp
50	again	again	ADV	_	48 became	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bridegroom				careful, extremely property	tree rules
3	lay	to-infinitive	bridegroom not said here	each head	the tail of the foal			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at tail=Destination
4	belong	past · perfect	head				to the foal	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	do	past · passive		that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	become	past	all foals	princes		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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