The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 77
These answers were repeated to the king, who ordered the brothers to be brought before him at once.
Who acts: king · What happens: repeat, order, bring · To what, where: answers, king, brothers
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 (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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 answers | det |
| 2 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | aux:pass |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brothers | det |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | ccomp |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | this answers | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the king | the brothers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | before king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination |
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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