The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 61
He obtained his request, and was taken on as stableman, to tend the king’s horses.
Who acts: youth · What happens: obtain, take on, tend, request · To what, where: request, horses
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obtained | nsubj |
| 2 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 request | nmod:poss |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 obtained | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 taken | compound:prt |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 stableman | case |
| 11 | stableman | stableman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tend | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tend | mark |
| 14 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 horses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tend | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | youth | youth's request | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take on | past · passive | youth not said here | as stableman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as stableman=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | tend | to-infinitive | the king's horses | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 4 | request | youth | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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