The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 50

He gave one of these to the king and another to the queen, and told them that before taking them they were to get into bed in a dark room and not to move for some hours, after which they might be sure that they would come out cured.

Who acts: Tiidu, summons · What happens: give, tell, take, get, not move, be · To what, where: one, king, summons, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, summons), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gave	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 one	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 another	cc
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 king	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 queen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 another	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 taking	mark
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 taking	mark
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 told	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taking	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 taking	advcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 bed	case
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 room	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 room	det
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 room	amod
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 move	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 move	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 move	mark
35	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 taking	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 hours	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 hours	det
38	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 move	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sure	punct
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 sure	obl
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sure	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 sure	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 sure	cop
45	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 come	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 sure	ccomp
50	out	out	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 come	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Tiidu	one of these	the king				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to king=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past			summons = summon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	take	gerund		summons = summon					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	get	past	summons = summon			bed		in a dark room	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
5	not move	to-infinitive					hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	is	might	summons = summon					sure property	tree rules
7	come out	would	summons = summon					out property	tree rules
8	cure	participle	summons = summon not said here						vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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