The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 24
The king, who was weak, listened to what these wicked men had told him, and desired the prince to have the contents of the sack piled into two heaps by the time that he returned from his council.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, listen, tell, desire, have, pile · To what, where: wicked men, king, prince, contents, two heaps, time · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weak | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weak | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 weak | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 weak | cop |
| 6 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 listened | punct |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 weak | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 listened | obl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 men | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 desired | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 desired | cc |
| 19 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 weak | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 desired | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 desired | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 contents | det |
| 25 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sack | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sack | det |
| 28 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 contents | nmod |
| 29 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 contents | acl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 heaps | case |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 heaps | nummod |
| 32 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 piled | obl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 piled | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 returned | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 returned | nsubj |
| 38 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 time | acl:relcl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 council | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 council | nmod:poss |
| 41 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returned | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | participle | the king not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | this wicked men | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | desire | past | the king not said here | the prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the contents of the sack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pile | participle | the contents of the sack not said here | two heaps | time | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heap=Destination | |||
| 7 | return | past | king | the time not said here | king's council | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent time=Theme from council=Initial_Location |
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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