The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 37

And the end of it was that Florea, as the eldest, went to the stables, chose the best and handsomest horse they contained, saddled him, and took leave of the court.

Who acts: end, Florea, men · What happens: be, go, choose, contain, saddle, take · To what, where: Florea, stables, best, handsomest horse, leave

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Florea, men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 Florea	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Florea	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Florea	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 Florea	mark
8	Florea	Florea	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eldest	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 eldest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eldest	det
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 Florea	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Florea	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 stables	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stables	det
17	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chose	punct
19	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 best	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 chose	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 horse	cc
23	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 horse	amod
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 best	conj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 contained	nsubj
26	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 horse	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saddled	punct
28	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saddled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	parataxis
33	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 court	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 court	det
36	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the end of subject	Florea			tree rules
2	go	past	Florea			the stables	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
3	choose	past	Florea not said here	the best and handsomest horse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
4	contain	past	men = man	handsomest horse not said here			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
5	saddle	past	Florea not said here		Florea		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
6	take	past		leave of the court			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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