The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 20
The guards had stepped back, but the king called to them in a furious voice to secure the madman.
Who acts: king · What happens: step back, call, secure · To what, where: guards, furious voice, madman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. 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 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stepped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | aux |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stepped | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 secure | mark |
| 18 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 madman | det |
| 20 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 secure | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step back | past · perfect · passive | the guards | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | the king | guards = guard | a furious voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | secure | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the madman | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition madman=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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