The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 53
However, the king ordered his treasure to pay him three times as much as he asked, and with this Tiidu went down to the harbour and engaged a small ship to carry him back to his native country.
Who acts: king, treasure · What happens: order, pay, ask, go down, engage, carry back · To what, where: treasure, king, small ship, native country
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 (king, treasure), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pay | mark |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pay | obj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 asked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 much | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Tiidu | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Tiidu | det |
| 22 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ordered | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 harbour | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 harbour | det |
| 27 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 engaged | cc |
| 29 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ship | det |
| 31 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ship | amod |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 engaged | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 carry | mark |
| 34 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 engaged | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 carry | obj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 carry | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 country | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 country | nmod:poss |
| 39 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 country | amod |
| 40 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carry | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | king's treasure | however property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent treasure=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's treasure not said here | king | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go down | past | with this Tiidu; to the harbour; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | engage | past | a small ship | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||||
| 6 | carry back | to-infinitive | king | king's native country | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to country=Destination | ||||
| 7 | treasure | king | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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