The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 53

Not many minutes later, Simon the seventh stood before the king, who explained to him what he wished done, and also that to steal for the benefit of his king and country was by no means a wrong thing, though it was very wrong to steal for his own advantage.

Who acts: seventh, king, Simon, no, it · What happens: stand, explain, wish, do, steal, be · To what, where: king, Simon

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh, king, Simon, no), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minutes	amod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 stood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 later	punct
6	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 later	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seventh	det
8	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 explained	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 explained	nsubj
15	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 king	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 explained	obl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 explained	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wished	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steal	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 steal	cc
24	also	also	ADV	_	27 steal	advmod
25	that	that	ADV	_	27 steal	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 steal	mark
27	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stood	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 benefit	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 benefit	det
30	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 steal	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 king	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 king	nmod:poss
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 benefit	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 country	cc
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 king	conj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 means	cop
37	by	by	SCONJ	_	39 means	mark
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 means	nsubj
39	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 benefit	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 thing	det
41	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thing	amod
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 means	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wrong	punct
44	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 wrong	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 wrong	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 wrong	cop
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 wrong	advmod
48	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 steal	parataxis
49	to	to	PART	_	50 steal	mark
50	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 wrong	csubj
51	for	for	ADP	_	54 advantage	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 advantage	nmod:poss
53	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 advantage	amod
54	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 steal	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the seventh			before the king	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location
2	explain speech: assert	past	the king	the king	Simon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient
3	wish	past	Simon					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	participle	Simon not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	steal	to-infinitive	the seventh not said here				for the benefit of Simon's king and country; that property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	no				mean property	tree rules
7	is	past	it				wrong property	tree rules
8	steal	to-infinitive					for Simon's own advantage	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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