The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 18

The blacksmith had to shoe the king’s horses, and thought to himself, ‘Without doubt the house will be yours!’

Who acts: blacksmith · What happens: have, think, be · To what, where: shoe, king, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacksmith), 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 blacksmith	det
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shoe	mark
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horses	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shoe	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yours	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 yours	punct
17	Without	without	ADP	_	20 house	case
18	doubt	doubt	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yours	obl
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 yours	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 yours	cop
23	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 thought	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the blacksmith	shoe the king's horses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	think speech: other	participle	the blacksmith not said here		king		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	future		yours		without the house	tree rules

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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