The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 68
This idea pleased the king, and he ordered bread and bacon and a flask of drugged wine to be placed on the bank of the stream, and the watchers to be redoubled.
Who acts: king · What happens: order, drug, place, redouble · To what, where: bread, bank, watchers
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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ordered | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | parataxis |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bacon | cc |
| 12 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bread | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flask | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flask | det |
| 15 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bread | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 17 | drugged | drug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wine | amod |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flask | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 placed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 placed | aux:pass |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wine | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 stream | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stream | det |
| 27 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bank | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 redoubled | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 redoubled | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 watchers | det |
| 31 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 redoubled | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 redoubled | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 redoubled | aux:pass |
| 34 | redoubled | redouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ordered | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | bread and bacon and a flask of drugged wine | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drug | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | place | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | the bank of the stream | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on bank=Destination | ||||
| 4 | redouble | to-infinitive · passive | the watchers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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