The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 25

The king's wounds were not very severe, but his face and hands were cut and torn, while his feet were in a worse plight still, for, instead of proper hunting boots, he only wore sandals, to enable him to run more swiftly.

Who acts: wounds, feet, Balancin, king · What happens: not be, cut, tear, be, wear, enable · To what, where: face, worse plight, sandals, Balancin

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wounds, feet, Balancin, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wounds	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 severe	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 severe	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 severe	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 severe	advmod
8	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hands	cc
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 face	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	aux:pass
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 severe	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 torn	cc
18	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cut	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 plight	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 plight	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feet	nmod:poss
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plight	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plight	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 plight	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plight	det
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 plight	amod
27	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl
28	still	still	ADV	_	16 cut	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 boots	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	36 boots	case
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 boots	punct
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	36 boots	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 boots	amod
35	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 boots	compound
36	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wore	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wore	nsubj
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 wore	advmod
40	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 severe	parataxis
41	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 wore	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 enable	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 enable	mark
44	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wore	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 enable	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 run	mark
47	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 enable	xcomp
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 swiftly	advmod
49	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	47 run	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 severe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the king's wounds				severe property	tree rules
2	cut	past · passive		Balancin's face and hands		still	for proper hunting boots	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for boot=Asset
3	tear	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Balancin's feet		a worse plight			tree rules
5	wear	past	Balancin	sandals				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme
6	enable	to-infinitive	Balancin not said here	Balancin				tree rules
7	run	to-infinitive	Balancin not said here				swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wound		the king					nom wound «state 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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