The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 77

His orders were obeyed, and the prince, loudly bewailing his sad fate, was led back to bed, where for many days he lay in a high fever.

Who acts: prince, king · What happens: obey, bewail, lead, lie, order, fate · To what, where: orders, sad fate, prince, bed, high fever

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 orders	nmod:poss
2	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obeyed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	aux:pass
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 led	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bewailing	punct
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	11 bewailing	advmod
11	bewailing	bewail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 prince	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fate	nmod:poss
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fate	amod
14	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bewailing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prince	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 led	aux:pass
17	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 obeyed	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	20 bed	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 bed	case
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 lay	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bed	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 fever	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fever	det
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fever	amod
31	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past · passive		king's orders				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bewail	gerund		king's sad fate			loudly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
3	lead	past · passive		the prince	bed			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination
4	lie	past	prince		a high fever	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fever=Location
5	order		king					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	fate		king					nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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