The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 25

Ciccu was very much surprised at this sudden command, and he walked thoughtfully away to the stables and began to stroke his favourite horse, saying to himself, ‘Ah, my pet, we must bid each other good-bye, for the king has sent me away to get the sword of the Maneater.’

Who acts: Ciccu, we, king · What happens: be, walk, begin, stroke, say, bid · To what, where: sudden command, favourite horse, Ciccu, other good, me, sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, we, king), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 command	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 command	det
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 command	amod
9	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	parataxis
14	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 walked	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stables	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stables	det
18	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 away	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stroke	mark
22	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
24	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stroke	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 began	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 saying	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bid	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 bid	punct
32	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	39 bid	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pet	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pet	nmod:poss
35	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Ah	vocative
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Ah	punct
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 bid	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bid	aux
39	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 saying	ccomp
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 good	nsubj
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 good	amod
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bid	obj
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
44	bye	bye	INTJ	_	42 good	flat
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sent	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 sent	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 king	det
48	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sent	nsubj
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 sent	aux
50	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 bid	parataxis
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 sent	obj
52	away	away	ADV	_	50 sent	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 get	mark
54	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 sent	advcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sword	det
56	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 get	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 Maneater	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Maneater	det
59	Maneater	Maneater	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 sword	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ciccu			this sudden command	surprised property	tree rules
2	walk	past	Ciccu				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	Ciccu not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	stroke	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here	Ciccu's favourite horse				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Ciccu not said here		Ciccu			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	bid	must	we	other good				tree rules
7	send away	present · perfect	the king	me			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	get	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the sword of the Maneater				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus

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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