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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 91

He laid his hand on the box as he spoke, but the king signed to him to wait, and ordered Labakan to come to the other table and lay his hand on the box he had chosen.

Who acts: choice, king · What happens: lay, speak, sign, wait, order, come · To what, where: hand, box, choice, Labakan, other table · 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 (choice, 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

nsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvclpunctccdetnsubjconjcaseoblmarkadvclpunctccparataxisobjmarkxcompcasedetamodoblccconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootHePRONlaidVERBhisPRONhandNOUNonADPtheDETboxNOUNasSCONJhePRONspokeVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETkingNOUNsignedVERBtoADPhimPRONtoPARTwaitVERB,PUNCTandCCONJorderedVERBLabakanPROPNtoPARTcomeVERBtoADPtheDETotherADJtableNOUNandCCONJlayVERBhisPRONhandNOUNonADPtheDETboxNOUNhePRONhadAUXchosenVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 laidnsubj
2laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 handnmod:poss
4handhandNOUNNumber=Sing2 laidobj
5ononADP_7 boxcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 boxdet
7boxboxNOUNNumber=Sing2 laidobl
8asasSCONJ_10 spokemark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 spokensubj
10spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 laidadvcl
11,,PUNCT_15 signedpunct
12butbutCCONJ_15 signedcc
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kingdet
14kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing15 signednsubj
15signedsignVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 laidconj
16totoADP_17 himcase
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 signedobl
18totoPART_19 waitmark
19waitwaitVERBVerbForm=Inf15 signedadvcl
20,,PUNCT_22 orderedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 orderedcc
22orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 laidparataxis
23LabakanLabakanPROPNNumber=Sing22 orderedobj
24totoPART_25 comemark
25comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 orderedxcomp
26totoADP_29 tablecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 tabledet
28otherotherADJDegree=Pos29 tableamod
29tabletableNOUNNumber=Sing25 comeobl
30andandCCONJ_31 laycc
31laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 orderedconj
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 handnmod:poss
33handhandNOUNNumber=Sing31 layobj
34ononADP_36 boxcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 boxdet
36boxboxNOUNNumber=Sing31 layobl
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 chosennsubj
38hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 chosenaux
39chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part36 boxacl:relcl
40..PUNCT_2 laidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1laypastchoicechoice's handthe boxvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on box=Destination
2speak speech: otherpastchoicevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3signpastthe kingchoicevn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4waitto-infinitivethe king not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5orderpastLabakanvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent labakan=Recipient clause=Topic
6come not said to happento-infinitivethe other tablevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location
7liepastchoice's handthe boxvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
8choosepast · perfectkingthe box not said herevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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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