The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 98

Now the Sultan was very angry that both his plots to get possession of Hungary had been such total failures, and he sent for his aunt, who was a witch, to consult her as to what he should do next.

Who acts: Sultan, plots, war, aunt · What happens: be, get, send, consult, do, plot · To what, where: possession, such total failures, witch, Sultan, Hungary

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 (Sultan, plots, war, aunt), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 plots	det
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plots	nmod:poss
10	plots	plot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	advcl
13	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Hungary	case
15	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 possession	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 failures	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 failures	cop
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 failures	amod
19	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 failures	amod
20	failures	failure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 possession	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 aunt	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 aunt	nmod:poss
27	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 witch	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 witch	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 witch	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 witch	det
32	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 aunt	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 consult	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 consult	mark
35	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sent	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 consult	obj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 do	mark
38	to	to	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 do	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 consult	advcl
43	next	next	ADV	_	42 do	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sultan		now	angry property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	war's plots	possession of Hungary			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
3	is a	past · perfect		such total failures			tree rules
4	send	past	war			for war's aunt and a witch	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	war's aunt and a witch	a witch			tree rules
6	consult	to-infinitive	war not said here	Sultan			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	do	should	war			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	plot		war				nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	possess			Hungary			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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