The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 42

The king had, in truth, never seen so large a beast, and he willingly paid the thousand dollars, which was the price demanded; but Peder remembered to take off the halter before he left.

Who acts: king, price, Peder · What happens: have, not see, pay, be, remember, take off · To what, where: truth, thousand dollars, halter

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, price, Peder), 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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 truth	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 truth	case
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 large	advmod
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seen	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 large	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 paid	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 paid	nsubj
17	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	18 paid	advmod
18	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dollars	det
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 dollars	nummod
21	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 paid	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 demanded	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 demanded	obj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 demanded	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 price	det
26	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 demanded	nsubj
27	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dollars	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 remembered	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 remembered	cc
30	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 remembered	nsubj
31	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 take	mark
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 remembered	xcomp
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 take	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 halter	det
36	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 left	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 take	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	truth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient
2	not see	participle	the king not said here		large property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	pay	past	king	the thousand dollars	willingly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset
4	is	past	the price		demand property	tree rules
5	remember	past	Peder			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	take off	to-infinitive	Peder not said here	the halter		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Theme
7	leave	past	Peder			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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