The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 60

The men set to work, and in two hours the tower was built, and they proceeded to the palace to inform the king that his commands were fulfilled.

Who acts: men, stool, man · What happens: set, work, build, proceed, inform, fulfil · To what, where: tower, king, commands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, stool, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 built	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 built	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 built	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 built	aux:pass
14	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 proceeded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 proceeded	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 proceeded	nsubj
18	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proceeded	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 inform	mark
23	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 proceeded	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inform	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fulfilled	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 commands	nmod:poss
28	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fulfilled	aux:pass
30	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 inform	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	the men					tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the men not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · passive		the tower		hour		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	proceed	past	stool				to the palace	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	stool not said here		the king			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
6	fulfil	past · passive		man's commands				tree rules
7	command		man					nom command «communication 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.

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