The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 46
And the foolish king listened to them, and ordered the prince to be brought before him.
Who acts: foolish king · What happens: listen, order, bring · To what, where: foolish king, soldiers, prince
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 (foolish 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 king | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | the foolish king not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the foolish king | the prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the foolish king not said here | before king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination |
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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