The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 156

He had his horses harnessed and drove off himself to see the Serpent King and to complain of the way in which he had been betrayed.

Who acts: Mark, horses · What happens: have, harness, drive off, see, complain, betray · To what, where: Mark, Serpent King, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark, horses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harnessed	nsubj
5	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drove	cc
7	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 drove	compound:prt
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 drove	obl:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drove	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
13	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 King	compound
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 complain	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 complain	mark
17	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 complain	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 betrayed	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 betrayed	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 betrayed	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 betrayed	aux:pass
26	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 way	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mark				tree rules
2	harness	past	Mark's horses				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	drive off	past	Mark not said here	Mark			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	see	to-infinitive	Mark not said here	the Serpent King			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
5	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	Mark not said here			of the way	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	betray	past · perfect · passive		Mark	the way		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 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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