The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 18

The servant ran after his master and told him what had happened, and then, not wishing to lose the saddle as well as the horse, he went back to fetch it.

Who acts: servant · What happens: run, tell, happen, not wish, lose, go back · To what, where: servant, saddle, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 master	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	aux
12	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wishing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wishing	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 wishing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wishing	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wishing	advmod
18	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lose	mark
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wishing	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 saddle	det
22	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	27 horse	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fetch	mark
33	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fetch	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	run	past	the servant			after servant's master	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the servant not said here		servant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not wish	gerund	the servant not said here			then	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	the saddle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Eventuality
6	go back	past	servant				tree rules
7	fetch	to-infinitive	servant not said here	horse			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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