The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 43
After he was gone the king sent for the butcher and told him to kill the animal for the wedding feast.
Who acts: Peder, gone king · What happens: be, send, tell, kill · To what, where: Peder, animal · 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 (Peder, gone 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 butcher | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 butcher | det |
| 10 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 feast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | compound |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peder | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the gone king | for the butcher | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the gone king not said here | Peder | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gone king not said here | the animal | for the wedding feast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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