The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 74

So the chamberlain carried away the table and took it straight to the king, telling him at the same time of Jack's threat, at which they both laughed till their sides ached.

Who acts: chamberlain, table, sides · What happens: carry away, take, tell, laugh, ache · To what, where: table, war, king, chamberlain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain, table, sides), 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 carried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamberlain	det
3	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 king	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 took	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 telling	iobj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 telling	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 threat	case
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 threat	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Jack	case
25	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 laughed	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 laughed	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laughed	nsubj
30	both	both	ADV	_	31 laughed	advmod
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 ached	mark
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sides	nmod:poss
34	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ached	nsubj
35	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laughed	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	past	the chamberlain	the table			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme
2	take	past	the chamberlain not said here	war	the king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the chamberlain not said here		chamberlain	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	laugh	past	table				both property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ache	past	table's sides					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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