The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 90

So the princess did exactly as the youth had bidden her; and no sooner had she spoken than the king ordered the tower to be pulled down, and the prisoner brought before him.

Who acts: princess, king, prisoner · What happens: do, bid, speak, order, pull down, bring · To what, where: youth, tower · 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 (princess, king, prisoner), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	advcl
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 bidden	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 bidden	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bidden	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bidden	aux
10	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bidden	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sooner	det
15	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoken	nsubj
18	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 ordered	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ordered	nsubj
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tower	det
24	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ordered	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 pulled	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 pulled	aux:pass
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tower	acl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 pulled	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 brought	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prisoner	det
32	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	nsubj
33	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	conj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the princess				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · perfect · passive		the youth		exactly property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect	princess				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	order	past	the king	the tower			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme
5	pull down	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here	the tower not said here			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»
6	bring	past	the prisoner		before king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 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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