The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 15

When peace was made, and the king returned, he was told that his wife had had two babies in his absence, but that both were dead; that she herself had gone out of her mind and was obliged to be shut up in a tower in the mountains, where, in time, the fresh air might cure her.'

Who acts: king, wife, both, that, fresh air · What happens: make, return, tell, have, be, go out · To what, where: peace, king, two babies, absence, mind, tower · 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 (king, wife, both, that), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 cure	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 returned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 returned	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	aux
18	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	ccomp
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 babies	nummod
20	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 absence	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 absence	nmod:poss
23	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 babies	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dead	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 dead	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 dead	mark
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	29 dead	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dead	cop
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 gone	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 gone	nsubj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gone	nsubj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 gone	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	aux
35	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 made	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 mind	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 mind	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mind	nmod:poss
39	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gone	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 obliged	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 obliged	aux:pass
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 shut	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 shut	aux:pass
45	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 obliged	xcomp
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 shut	compound:prt
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 tower	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 tower	det
49	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shut	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 mountains	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mountains	det
52	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 shut	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 where	punct
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 mountains	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 time	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 time	case
57	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shut	obl:unmarked
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 air	det
60	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 air	amod
61	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 cure	nsubj
62	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 cure	aux
63	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
64	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 cure	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	63 cure	punct
66	'	'	PUNCT	_	63 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		peace				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	return	past	the king					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past · perfect	king's wife	two babies	king's absence			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
5	is	past	both				dead property	tree rules
6	go out	past · perfect	that	wife's mind				tree rules
7	oblige	past · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
8	shut up	to-infinitive · passive			a tower	time	in the mountains	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»
9	cure	might	the fresh air	wife				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
10	absent		king					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	mind		wife					nom mind «cognition 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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