The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 107

And, without waiting for her to speak, he commanded that his daughter should be walled up in the summer-house and starved to death with her lover.

Who acts: king, smith · What happens: wait, speak, command, wall up, starve · To what, where: daughter, summer house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, smith), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 commanded	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 And	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 waiting	mark
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 commanded	advcl
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 speak	mark
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 speak	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waiting	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 commanded	nsubj
11	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 walled	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walled	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 walled	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 walled	aux:pass
17	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 commanded	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 walled	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 summer	punct
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walled	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 starved	cc
25	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 walled	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 starved	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 lover	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lover	nmod:poss
30	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 death	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	king not said here				tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	smith				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	command	past	king				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	wall up	should · passive		king's daughter	the summer house		tree rules
5	starve	participle				to death with daughter's lover	tree rules

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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