The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 72
And the king in his bed heard what she said, and ordered one of his attendants to go out and buy the basket.
Who acts: king, sister, one · What happens: hear, say, order, go out, buy · To what, where: one, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sister, one), 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 | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | parataxis |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ordered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 attendants | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 buy | cc |
| 22 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 basket | det |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buy | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king in king's bed | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | past | one of king's attendants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of king's attendants not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | buy | infinitive | one of king's attendants not said here | the basket | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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