The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 84

The chamberlain hastened back to the palace, and gave the king Jack's message, at which he laughed more than before, and called all his courtiers to hear the story.

Who acts: chamberlain · What happens: hasten back, give, laugh, call, hear · To what, where: chamberlain, palace, message, king, more, courtiers · 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), 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 chamberlain	det
2	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chamberlain	acl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hastened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 message	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Jack	case
15	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laughed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 laughed	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 more	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laughed	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 courtiers	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 courtiers	nmod:poss
29	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hear	mark
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 called	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 story	det
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hear	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hasten back	participle		the chamberlain not said here		the palace	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination
2	give	past	the chamberlain	Jack's message	the king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient message=Theme
3	laugh	past	chamberlain	more			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
4	call	past	chamberlain not said here	king's courtiers			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	to-infinitive	chamberlain not said here	the story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=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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