The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 93

‘It will be all right,’ answered the horse when he had heard his tale; ‘just take enough food for the day for both of us, and then get on my back.’

Who acts: sink, Ciccu · What happens: be, answer, hear, take, get, tell · To what, where: horse, tale, enough food, back · 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 (sink, Ciccu), 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	_	6 right	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 right	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 right	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 answered	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tale	nmod:poss
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
22	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 food	amod
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 both	case
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 take	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 both	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 get	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 get	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 get	advmod
34	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 take	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 back	nmod:poss
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	sink					all, right property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the horse				tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	Ciccu	Ciccu's tale					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
4	take	infinitive		enough food			day	for both	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for both=Beneficiary
5	get	infinitive				my back	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
6	tell		Ciccu						nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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