The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 15

The prisoner was all covered with hair, almost like an animal; and altogether he was so curious to look at that the king locked him up in a strong room and sent out letters of invitation to all the other kings and princes asking them to come and see this wonder.

Who acts: Man, king, other kings · What happens: cover, be, look, lock up, send out, ask · To what, where: prisoner, Man, strong room, princes, wonder, invitation

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, king, other kings), 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 prisoner	det
2	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 covered	advmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 hair	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 animal	punct
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 animal	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 animal	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 curious	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 curious	cc
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	19 curious	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 curious	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 curious	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 curious	advmod
19	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 covered	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 locked	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 look	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 locked	nsubj
26	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 curious	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 locked	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 locked	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 room	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 room	det
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 room	amod
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 locked	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 letters	cc
34	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 letters	amod
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 sent	compound:prt
36	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 room	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 invitation	case
38	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 letters	nmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 kings	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 kings	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 kings	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 kings	amod
43	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 invitation	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 princes	cc
45	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 kings	conj
46	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 kings	acl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 asking	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 come	mark
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 asking	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 see	cc
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 come	conj
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 wonder	det
53	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the prisoner			with hair; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with hair=Theme
2	is	past	Man				altogether, curious property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	the king not said here				at that	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at that=Theme
4	lock up	past	the king	Man		a strong room and sent letters of invitation to all other kings and princes		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	send out	participle						vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	all other kings and princes not said here		princes = prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	all other kings and princes not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	infinitive	all other kings and princes not said here	this wonder				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus
9	letter			invitation to all other kings and princes				nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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