The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

At first the king was so surprised and frightened that he could only stare; but the fakeer beckoned to him to come down, so, mustering up his courage, he boldly stepped down into the grave.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, frighten, stare, beckon, come down, muster up · To what, where: fakeer, King, courage, grave

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 surprised	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprised	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 surprised	advmod
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 frightened	cc
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stare	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stare	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stare	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 stare	advmod
14	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 frightened	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fakeer	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fakeer	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fakeer	det
18	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprised	obl
19	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fakeer	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beckoned	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 beckoned	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mustering	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 mustering	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mustering	punct
28	mustering	muster	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 surprised	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 mustering	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 courage	nmod:poss
31	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mustering	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stepped	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stepped	nsubj
34	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 stepped	advmod
35	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 stepped	compound:prt
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 grave	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 grave	det
39	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stepped	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king				the fakeer obl; surprised property	tree rules
2	frighten	past	the king not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stare	could	King					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	beckon	participle		the fakeer not said here	King			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	come down	to-infinitive					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	muster up	gerund	the king not said here	King's courage				tree rules
7	step down	past	King			the grave	boldly property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=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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