The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 123

‘I did not give much for him, and he is not worth much; he is a capital horse to ride, but good for nothing at drawing; but he will always be able to carry your bag of provisions and you too, if you walk and ride by turns.’

Who acts: I, Halvor, you · What happens: not give, not be, be, ride, draw, carry · To what, where: capital horse, good, bag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Halvor, you), 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 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worth	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worth	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worth	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 worth	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 worth	advmod
14	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	parataxis
15	much	much	ADV	_	14 worth	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 horse	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 horse	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 horse	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
20	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horse	amod
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ride	mark
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 horse	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 good	cc
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ride	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 nothing	case
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 good	obl
29	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 drawing	mark
30	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 nothing	acl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 able	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 able	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 able	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 able	aux
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 able	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	cop
37	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 carry	mark
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	xcomp
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bag	nmod:poss
41	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 provisions	case
43	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bag	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 you	cc
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 carry	conj
46	too	too	ADV	_	39 carry	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 walk	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 walk	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 walk	nsubj
50	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 ride	cc
52	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 walk	conj
53	by	by	ADP	_	54 turns	case
54	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 ride	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not give	past · do-support	I		for Halvor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for he=Asset
2	not is	present	Halvor		worth property	tree rules
3	is a	present	Halvor	a capital horse		tree rules
4	ride	to-infinitive	I not said here	good		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
5	draw	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	future	Halvor		able, always property	tree rules
7	carry	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	your bag of provisions		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
8	walk a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	ride	present	you not said here		by turns	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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