Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 96

But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound, the daintiest dishes to be served, and the loveliest maidens to dance.

Who acts: king, music, loveliest maidens · What happens: not listen, order, sound, serve, dance · To what, where: music, daintiest dishes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, music, loveliest maidens), 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 listen	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 listen	advmod
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 listen	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ordered	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ordered	nsubj
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 music	det
13	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ordered	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sound	mark
15	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dishes	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dishes	det
18	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 dishes	amod
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sound	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 served	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 served	aux:pass
22	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 dishes	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dance	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dance	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maidens	det
26	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 maidens	amod
27	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dance	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dance	mark
29	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 listen	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	the king		to this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
2	order	past	king	the music		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent music=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive	the music not said here	the daintiest dishes		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dish=Theme
4	serve	to-infinitive · passive	the music not said here	the daintiest dishes not said here		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»
5	dance	to-infinitive	the loveliest maidens			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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