The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 98
And the king was content that he should do so, and gave orders to prepare for their journey.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: be, do, give, prepare, journey · To what, where: orders
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 content | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 content | ccomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | conj |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 prepare | mark |
| 16 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gave | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepare | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | should | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | man not said here | orders | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare | to-infinitive | man not said here | for king's journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | journey | king | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/98/