The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 54
At this news the king waxed so furious that he ordered a gallows to be erected at once, and the young man to be hanged without a trial.
Who acts: king · What happens: wax, order, erect, hange · To what, where: young man, news, gallows
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waxed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waxed | nsubj |
| 6 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 furious | advmod |
| 8 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waxed | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 furious | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gallows | det |
| 13 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 erected | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 erected | aux:pass |
| 16 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ordered | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 erected | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waxed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hanged | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hanged | aux:pass |
| 26 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 man | acl |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 trial | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trial | det |
| 29 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hanged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wax | past | the king | the young man | this news | furious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at news=Location | ||
| 2 | order | past | king | a gallows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallows=Theme | ||||
| 3 | erect | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | the young man not said here | without a trial | tree rules |
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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