The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 70

In a few hours the princess was as well as ever; but the pain, the wetting, and the shock of the accident, all told severely on the king, and for three days he lay in a high fever.

Who acts: king · What happens: tell, lie, shock · To what, where: high fever, accident · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hours	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hours	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	appos
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	acl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 was	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 well	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 pain	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pain	det
15	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princess	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wetting	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wetting	det
18	wetting	wetting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pain	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shock	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shock	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shock	det
22	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pain	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 accident	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 accident	det
25	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shock	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 pain	conj
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 all	acl
29	severely	severely	ADV	_	28 told	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lay	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lay	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lay	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 all	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 fever	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 fever	det
42	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fever	amod
43	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lay	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle					on the king; severely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	king		a high fever	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fever=Location
3	shock			the accident				nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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