The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 85
The king was rejoiced in his heart that his daughter had married a prince, and not a common man, and he chased the two soldiers away with whips, and told them that if they ever dared to show their faces across the borders of his kingdom, they should die the same death he had prepared for the prince.
Who acts: heart, king, soldiers · What happens: rejoice, marry, chase, tell, dare, show · To what, where: king, heart, daughter, soldiers, faces, borders · 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 (heart, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 4 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoiced | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 married | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heart | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 man | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoiced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chased | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chased | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chased | nsubj |
| 24 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 soldiers | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 soldiers | nummod |
| 27 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 away | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 chased | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 whips | case |
| 30 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 chased | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 told | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 told | cc |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chased | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 die | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 dared | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dared | nsubj |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 dared | advmod |
| 39 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 die | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 show | mark |
| 41 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 dared | xcomp |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 faces | nmod:poss |
| 43 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 show | obj |
| 44 | across | across | ADP | _ | 46 borders | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 borders | det |
| 46 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 show | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 kingdom | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 49 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 borders | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dared | punct |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 die | nsubj |
| 52 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 die | aux |
| 53 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 told | xcomp |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 death | det |
| 55 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 death | amod |
| 56 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 die | obj |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 prepared | nsubj |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 prepared | aux |
| 59 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 death | acl:relcl |
| 60 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 prince | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 prince | det |
| 62 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 prepared | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · passive | the king | king's heart | a common man obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect · passive | king's heart not said here | king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase | past | king | with whips; away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | king not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | dare a condition, not said to happen | past | soldiers = soldier | ever | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | soldiers's faces | the borders of king's kingdom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient | |||
| 7 | die not said to happen | should | soldiers = soldier | the same death | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | prepare | past · perfect | king | the same death not said here | for the prince | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent death=Product for prince=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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