The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 46
So king Balancin had to content himself with ordering the physician to be treated with royal honours, and desiring that an escort should attend him on his journey home.
Who acts: king, escort · What happens: have, content, order, treat, desire, attend · To what, where: king, physician, journey
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 (king, escort), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 king | appos |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 content | mark |
| 6 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 content | obj |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 ordering | mark |
| 9 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 content | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 physician | det |
| 11 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordering | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 treated | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 treated | aux:pass |
| 14 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 physician | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 honours | case |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 honours | amod |
| 17 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 treated | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 desiring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 desiring | cc |
| 20 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ordering | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 attend | mark |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 escort | det |
| 23 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attend | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 attend | aux |
| 25 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 desiring | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 attend | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 journey | nmod:poss |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attend | obl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 attend | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | content | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | order | gerund | king not said here | the physician | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treat | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | the physician not said here | with royal honours | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with honour=Theme | |||
| 5 | desire | gerund | king not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | attend | should | a escort | king | king's journey | home property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal | ||
| 7 | journey | king | nom journey «act 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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