The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 40

His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten palaces with silver doors, golden roofs, and crystal windows.

Who acts: great army, Archidej · What happens: make up, obey, own, have, wish · To what, where: great army, slightest wish, ten palaces, city

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great army, Archidej), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 army	nmod:poss
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 army	amod
3	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 obey	mark
11	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wish	nmod:poss
13	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 wish	amod
14	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obey	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 owned	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 owned	nsubj
17	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
18	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 owned	obl:unmarked
20	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cities	nummod
21	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 times	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 city	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 city	det
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 owned	conj
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 palaces	nummod
30	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 doors	case
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doors	compound
33	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 palaces	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 roofs	punct
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 roofs	amod
36	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 palaces	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 windows	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 windows	cc
39	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 windows	amod
40	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		Archidej's great army			of men	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	obey	to-infinitive	Archidej's great army not said here	Archidej's slightest wish				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
3	own	past	Archidej			time		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	have	past	Archidej	ten palaces and golden roofs	each city		with silver doors; crystal windows obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient
5	wish		Archidej					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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.

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