The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 37

But as this sort of life was bad for his health, the doctors ordered him horse exercise, and he soon became a first-rate rider, and used to go out for long excursions on horseback, accompanied always by his father’s stud-groom and a numerous retinue.

Who acts: sort, doctors, throve · What happens: be, order, become, use, go out, accompany · To what, where: horse exercise, throve, rate rider, long excursions, life

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort, doctors, throve), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 ordered	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 bad	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	cop
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ordered	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 health	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 health	nmod:poss
11	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bad	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doctors	det
14	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	obj
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exercise	compound
18	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ordered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 became	advmod
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ordered	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rider	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 rate	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 first	punct
27	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rider	compound
28	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 used	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 used	cc
31	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 became	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	xcomp
34	out	out	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 excursions	case
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 excursions	amod
37	excursions	excursion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 go	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 horseback	case
39	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 excursions	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 accompanied	punct
41	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 excursions	acl
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 accompanied	advmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	49 groom	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 father	nmod:poss
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 groom	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 father	case
47	stud	stud	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 groom	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 stud	punct
49	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 accompanied	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 retinue	cc
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 retinue	det
52	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 retinue	amod
53	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 groom	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this sort of life			for throve's health; bad property	tree rules
2	order	past	the doctors	horse exercise	throve		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary exercise=Theme
3	become	past	throve	a rate rider		soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	use	participle	throve not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go out	to-infinitive	throve not said here			for long excursions on horseback; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	accompany	participle		long excursions on horseback not said here		by throve's father's stud groom and a numerous retinue; always property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by groom=Destination
7	sort			life			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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