The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 72

The king’s men told him that a horse-shoer was indeed wanted at the palace, but he must be one who could lift up the feet of the horse with the golden shoes, and such a one they had not yet been able to find.

Who acts: men, shoer, one, feet · What happens: tell, want, be, lift up, not be, find · To what, where: king, horse shoer, palace, one, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, shoer, one, feet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wanted	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shoer	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoer	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 horse	punct
11	shoer	shoer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	aux:pass
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 wanted	advmod
14	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 one	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 lift	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lift	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 lift	aux
26	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 lift	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feet	det
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lift	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 horse	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horse	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feet	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 shoes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shoes	det
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shoes	amod
36	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lift	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 one	cc
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	41 one	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	parataxis
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 able	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 able	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 able	advmod
45	yet	yet	ADV	_	47 able	advmod
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 able	cop
47	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 find	mark
49	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 able	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the king's men		king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	want	past · passive		a horse shoer		the palace		indeed property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
3	is a	must	shoer	one					tree rules
4	lift up	could	one	the feet of the horse				with the golden shoes	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
5	not is	past · perfect	feet = foot	such one not said here			yet	able property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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