The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 79
They were received at the palace by the king’s beautiful daughter, who gave orders that dinner should be laid for them at once.
Who acts: beautiful daughter · What happens: receive, give, lay · To what, where: feet, palace, orders
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful daughter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 16 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dinner | det |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 orders | nmod |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 laid | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 laid | aux:pass |
| 21 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gave | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 laid | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 laid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | the king's beautiful daughter | feet = foot | the palace | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at palace=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the king's beautiful daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay | should · passive | orders that dinner | for feet = foot | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for they=Beneficiary |
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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