The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 66

The king, who had a passion for collection all the rarest things he could find, fell into the trap directly, and inquired where he could get this marvellous lantern.

Who acts: king · What happens: have, find, fall, inquire, get · To what, where: passion, rarest things, trap, marvellous lantern · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 king	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 passion	det
7	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 collection	case
9	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passion	nmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 things	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 things	det
12	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 things	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 trap	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trap	det
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	directly	directly	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 inquired	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 inquired	cc
25	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 get	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 inquired	ccomp
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 lantern	det
31	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lantern	amod
32	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	a passion	for collection	tree rules
2	find	could	king	all rarest things not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	fall	past	the king		into the trap result; directly property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result
4	inquire speech: other	past	the king not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	could	king	this marvellous lantern		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lantern=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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