The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 24
The king ordered his servants to take the boy into the forest and to kill him there, and to bring back part of his liver and lungs.
Who acts: king, servants · What happens: order, take, kill, bring back · To what, where: servants, boy, forest, king, part
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 (king, servants), 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 | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 kill | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 bring | advmod |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 liver | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 liver | nmod:poss |
| 26 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lungs | cc |
| 28 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 liver | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | king's servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's servants not said here | the boy | the forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | king's servants not said here | king | there | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | the king not said here | part of king's liver and lungs | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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