The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 64

But every morning the princess passed him in food through the hole, and every third day the king sent his secretary to climb up a ladder and look down through a little window to see if he was dead.

Who acts: princess, king, crowd · What happens: pass, send, climb up, look down, see, be · To what, where: crowd, food, secretary, ladder

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 (princess, king, crowd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 passed	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sent	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	obl:unmarked
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 secretary	nmod:poss
22	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 climb	mark
24	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sent	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 climb	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ladder	det
27	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 climb	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 climb	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 look	compound:prt
31	through	through	ADP	_	34 window	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 window	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 window	amod
34	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 look	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 look	advcl
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 dead	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dead	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 see	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the princess	crowd	food	morning	through the hole	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in food=Destination
2	send	past	the king	crowd's secretary		day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secretary=Theme
3	climb up	to-infinitive	the king not said here	a ladder				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
4	look down	infinitive	the king not said here				through a little window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	crowd				dead property	tree rules

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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