The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 71
The king heard of this and was very angry, and sent for the shepherd to appear before him.
Who acts: king · What happens: hear, be, send, appear
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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 angry | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 angry | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 angry | advmod |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 shepherd | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shepherd | det |
| 15 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 appear | mark |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appear | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the king not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | the king not said here | for the shepherd | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | appear | to-infinitive | the king not said here | before shepherd | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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