More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 88
Then the king sent for his butcher, and had the little red calf killed.
Who acts: king, little red calf · What happens: send, have, kill · To what, where: little red calf
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, little red calf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 butcher | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 butcher | nmod:poss |
| 7 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 calf | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 calf | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 calf | amod |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 had | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | then | for King's butcher | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | the king not said here | the little red calf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | participle | the little red calf not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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