The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 92

The king was so bowed down with sorrow that he would not attend even to the business of the kingdom, and at last his Prime Minister had to tell him that the people were complaining that they had nobody to right their wrongs.

Who acts: king, last Prime Minister, people · What happens: bow down, not attend, have, tell, complain, right · To what, where: king, business, Minister, nobody, wrongs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, last Prime Minister, people), 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	5 bowed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bowed	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 bowed	advmod
5	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 bowed	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 sorrow	case
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowed	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 attend	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attend	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 attend	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 attend	advmod
13	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bowed	advcl
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 business	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 business	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 business	det
17	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attend	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 kingdom	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kingdom	det
20	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 business	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	27 Minister	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Minister	amod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Minister	nmod:poss
26	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	27 Minister	compound
27	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bowed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 complaining	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 complaining	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 complaining	aux
36	complaining	complain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 tell	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 complaining	ccomp
40	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 had	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 right	mark
42	right	right	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 nobody	acl
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wrongs	nmod:poss
44	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 right	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bow down	past · passive		the king		with sorrow	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	not attend	would	king	the business of the kingdom			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme business=Goal
3	have	past	king's last Prime Minister				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	king's last Prime Minister not said here		Minister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	complain speech: other	past · progressive	the people				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	people	nobody			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
7	right	to-infinitive	people not said here	people's wrongs			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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