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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 53

The first thing the new king did when he was seated on the throne, was to forbid anyone to go near the brook, on pain of being seized by the watchmen.

Who acts: new king, first thing, watchmen · What happens: do, seat, be, go, seize · To what, where: first thing, king, throne, brook, pain

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new king, first thing, watchmen), 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

detamodnsubjdetamodnsubjacl:relclmarknsubjaux:passadvclcasedetoblpunctcopmarkobjmarkxcompcasedetoblpunctcaseoblmarkaux:passaclcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETfirstADJthingNOUNtheDETnewADJkingNOUNdidVERBwhenSCONJhePRONwasAUXseatedVERBonADPtheDETthroneNOUN,PUNCTwasAUXtoPARTforbidVERBanyonePRONtoPARTgoVERBnearADPtheDETbrookNOUN,PUNCTonADPpainNOUNofSCONJbeingAUXseizedVERBbyADPtheDETwatchmenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 thingdet
2firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 thingamod
3thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing18 forbidnsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 kingdet
5newnewADJDegree=Pos6 kingamod
6kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing7 didnsubj
7diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thingacl:relcl
8whenwhenSCONJ_11 seatedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 seatednsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 seatedaux:pass
11seatedseatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 didadvcl
12ononADP_14 thronecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 thronedet
14thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing11 seatedobl
15,,PUNCT_3 thingpunct
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 forbidcop
17totoPART_18 forbidmark
18forbidforbidVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
19anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind18 forbidobj
20totoPART_21 gomark
21gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf18 forbidxcomp
22nearnearADP_24 brookcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 brookdet
24brookbrookNOUNNumber=Sing21 goobl
25,,PUNCT_27 painpunct
26ononADP_27 paincase
27painpainNOUNNumber=Sing21 goobl
28ofofSCONJ_30 seizedmark
29beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 seizedaux:pass
30seizedseizeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 painacl
31bybyADP_33 watchmencase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 watchmendet
33watchmenwatchmanNOUNNumber=Plur30 seizedobl
34..PUNCT_18 forbidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe new kingthe first thing not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2seatpast · passivekingthe thronevn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3ispastthe first thingforbid propertytree rules
4goto-infinitivethe first thing not said herethe brookon painvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near brook=Location
5seizegerund · passivethe watchmenpain not said herevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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