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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 109

It was in vain that the boy declared that he was only obeying the king's commands; the courtiers only replied that his majesty was not yet out of bed, and it was forbidden to wake him.

Who acts: way, boy, courtiers, majesty, king · What happens: be, declare, obey, reply, not be, forbid · To what, where: commands, bed, way, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, boy, courtiers, majesty), 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

nsubjcopcasemarkdetnsubjadvclmarknsubjauxadvmodadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjpunctdetnsubjadvmodparataxismarknmod:possnsubjcopadvmodadvmodcasecaseadvclpunctccnsubj:passaux:passconjmarkxcompobjpunctrootItPRONwasAUXinADPvainADJthatSCONJtheDETboyNOUNdeclaredVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXonlyADVobeyingVERBtheDETkingNOUN'sPARTcommandsNOUN;PUNCTtheDETcourtiersNOUNonlyADVrepliedVERBthatSCONJhisPRONmajestyNOUNwasAUXnotPARTyetADVoutADPofADPbedNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONwasAUXforbiddenVERBtoPARTwakeVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 vainnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 vaincop
3ininADP_4 vaincase
4vainvainADJDegree=Posrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_8 declaredmark
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 boydet
7boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing8 declarednsubj
8declareddeclareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 vainadvcl
9thatthatSCONJ_13 obeyingmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 obeyingnsubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 obeyingaux
12onlyonlyADV_13 obeyingadvmod
13obeyingobeyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 declaredadvcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 kingdet
15kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing17 commandsnmod:poss
16's'sPART_15 kingcase
17commandscommandNOUNNumber=Plur13 obeyingobj
18;;PUNCT_22 repliedpunct
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 courtiersdet
20courtierscourtierNOUNNumber=Plur22 repliednsubj
21onlyonlyADV_22 repliedadvmod
22repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 vainparataxis
23thatthatSCONJ_31 bedmark
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 majestynmod:poss
25majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing31 bednsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 bedcop
27notnotPARTPolarity=Neg31 bedadvmod
28yetyetADV_31 bedadvmod
29outoutADP_31 bedcase
30ofofADP_31 bedcase
31bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing22 repliedadvcl
32,,PUNCT_36 forbiddenpunct
33andandCCONJ_36 forbiddencc
34ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 forbiddennsubj:pass
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 forbiddenaux:pass
36forbiddenforbidVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 repliedconj
37totoPART_38 wakemark
38wakewakeVERBVerbForm=Inf36 forbiddenxcomp
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 wakeobj
40..PUNCT_4 vainpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastwayvain propertytree rules
2declare speech: otherpastthe boyvn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3obeypast · progressiveboythe king's commandsvn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
4reply speech: assertpastthe courtiersvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5not ispastking's majestybedyettree rules
6forbidpast · passivewaytree rules
7waketo-infinitivekingvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8commandthe kingnom command «communication 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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