--- title: ‘Choose a horse for yourself,’ said the King; and Sigurd went to the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Choose a horse for yourself,’ said the King; and Sigurd went to the wood, and there he met an old man with a white beard, and said, ‘Come! help me in horse-choosing.’ Who acts: King, Sigurd. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Sigurd), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:51:25 # text = ‘Choose a horse for yourself,’ said the King; and Sigurd went to the wood, and there he met an old man with a white beard, and said, ‘Come! help me in horse-choosing.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 38 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | infinitive | | a horse | | | | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | past | Sigurd | | | the wood | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **meet** | past | King | a old man | | there | | with a white beard | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with beard=Instrument | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sigurd *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **help** | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 8 | **choose** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/26/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Sigurd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/51/)