The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 58
The king was quite angry at the idea; but, to satisfy her, he ordered the servant’s room to be searched.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, satisfy, order, search · To what, where: idea, enemy, room
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), 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 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 idea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 idea | det |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordered | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ordered | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 satisfy | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 satisfy | mark |
| 13 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 ordered | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 satisfy | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 satisfy | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ordered | nsubj |
| 17 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 servant | det |
| 19 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 servant | case |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 searched | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 searched | aux:pass |
| 24 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ordered | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | the idea | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | satisfy | to-infinitive | enemy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | order | past | king | the servant's room | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |
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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