The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 79
And, being a king, and therefore accustomed to have everything the moment he wanted it, he commanded the ceremony to be performed without delay, and a splendid feast to be made for the bride and bridegroom.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, accustom, have, want, command, perform · To what, where: king, everything, marriage, ceremony · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commanded | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commanded | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accustomed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 accustomed | cc |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 accustomed | advmod |
| 9 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 accustomed | xcomp |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 commanded | nsubj |
| 20 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ceremony | det |
| 22 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commanded | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 performed | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 performed | aux:pass |
| 25 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ceremony | acl |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 delay | case |
| 27 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 performed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feast | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feast | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 feast | det |
| 31 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feast | amod |
| 32 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commanded | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 made | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 made | aux:pass |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 feast | acl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 bride | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bride | det |
| 38 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bridegroom | cc |
| 40 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bride | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accustom | participle | a king not said here | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | everything | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | king | marriage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | command | past | a king | the ceremony | a splendid feast obl | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ceremony=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | perform | to-infinitive · passive | a king not said here | the ceremony not said here | without delay | vn performance-26.7 «NP V» | |||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive · passive | a king not said here | for the bride and bridegroom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for bride=Beneficiary |
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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