The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 19

So the king told the soldiers that they might become his coachmen; but he made the boy his companion, and gave him rooms near his own.

Who acts: king, soldiers · What happens: tell, become, make, give · To what, where: soldiers, coachmen, companion, boy, rooms, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, soldiers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldiers	det
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 become	nsubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 become	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soldiers	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 coachmen	nmod:poss
12	coachmen	coachman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 companion	nmod:poss
20	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rooms	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the king	the soldiers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient
2	become	might	the soldiers	king's coachmen			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	king	king's companion	the boy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset boy=Beneficiary companion=Product
4	give	past	king not said here	rooms	king	king's own	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=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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