The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 39

Their king showed them what they had to do, and they set to work so hard that the grain was sorted into two heaps long before the council was over.

Who acts: king, rooms, council · What happens: show, have, do, set, work, sort · To what, where: rooms, grain, two heaps

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, rooms, council), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 showed	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 work	mark
15	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 hard	advmod
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 work	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sorted	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grain	det
20	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sorted	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sorted	aux:pass
22	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hard	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 heaps	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 heaps	nummod
25	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sorted	obl
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 sorted	advmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 over	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 council	det
29	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 over	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 over	cop
31	over	over	ADV	_	22 sorted	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	rooms's king	rooms = room		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic
2	have	past	rooms = room			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	rooms = room not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	set	present	rooms = room			tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	rooms = room not said here		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sort	past · passive		the grain	into two heaps goal; long property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into heap=Goal
7	is	past	the council		over property	tree rules

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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