The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 74

He wept and moaned to himself all day, and would hardly touch food, though, in dread that he should die and escape his tormentors, the king ordered his head cook to send him dishes from the royal table.

Who acts: man, king, head cook · What happens: weep, moan, touch, die, escape, order · To what, where: man, food, dread, tormentors, head cook, dishes

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 (man, king, head cook), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 moaned	cc
4	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 moaned	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moaned	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 touch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 touch	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 touch	aux
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 touch	advmod
13	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wept	conj
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 though	punct
16	though	though	ADV	_	13 touch	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dread	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 dread	case
19	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 die	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dread	acl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 escape	cc
25	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 die	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tormentors	nmod:poss
27	tormentors	tormentor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 escape	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ordered	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ordered	nsubj
31	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cook	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cook	compound
34	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ordered	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 send	mark
36	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ordered	xcomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 send	obj
38	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 send	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	42 table	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 table	det
41	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 table	amod
42	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dishes	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	man						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	moan	past	man not said here		man		day		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	touch	would	man not said here	food		dread		hardly, though property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme
4	die	should	man	dread not said here					tree rules
5	escape	infinitive	man not said here	man's tormentors					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tormentor=Initial_Location
6	order	past	the king	man's head cook					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic
7	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	man's head cook not said here	dishes	man				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dish=Theme

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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