The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 14
When the king heard of it, he sent for the cook, and told him that by the next morning he must have all the bread that the oven, heated seven times over, could bake.
Who acts: king, oven · What happens: hear, send, tell, have, heat, bake · To what, where: king, bread, oven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, oven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:1089): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cook | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cook | det |
| 12 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 morning | amod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | ccomp |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 bread | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bread | det |
| 27 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 bake | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 oven | det |
| 30 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bake | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heated | punct |
| 32 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 oven | acl |
| 33 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 times | nummod |
| 34 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 over | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 heated | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heated | punct |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 bake | aux |
| 38 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bread | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | of bread | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | king | for the cook | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | king not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | must | king | all bread | morning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | |||
| 5 | heat | participle | the oven not said here | over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bake | could | the oven | all bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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