The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 21

So saying he cut out the seven tongues, and the princess gave him a thick cloth to wrap them in; and he mounted his horse and rode away.

Who acts: princess, father · What happens: say, cut out, give, wrap in, mount, ride away · To what, where: seven tongues, thick cloth, father, tongues, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cut	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tongues	det
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tongues	nummod
8	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cloth	det
16	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloth	amod
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wrap	mark
19	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gave	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wrap	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 wrap	compound:prt
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 mounted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mounted	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mounted	nsubj
25	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horse	nmod:poss
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mounted	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rode	cc
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mounted	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 rode	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cut out	past		the seven tongues			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=Eventuality
3	give	past	the princess	a thick cloth	father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cloth=Theme
4	wrap in	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	tongues = tongue			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	mount	past	father	father's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
6	ride away	past	father not said here			away property	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 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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