The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 14

The king gladly gave his consent, and ordered the lists to be made ready, never doubting that two great champions would be eager for such a chance of adding to their fame.

Who acts: king, two great champions, chance · What happens: give, order, make, not doubt, be, add · To what, where: consent, lists

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, two great champions, chance), 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	4 gave	nsubj
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 consent	nmod:poss
6	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ordered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ordered	cc
9	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lists	det
11	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ordered	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 made	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ordered	ccomp
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 doubting	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 doubting	advmod
18	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gave	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 eager	mark
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 champions	nummod
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 champions	amod
22	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eager	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eager	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 eager	cop
25	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 doubting	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 chance	case
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 chance	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 chance	det
29	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eager	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 adding	mark
31	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 chance	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 fame	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fame	nmod:poss
34	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 adding	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king	king's consent	gladly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	order	past		the lists		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent list=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	not doubt	gerund	the king not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	two great champions		for such chance; eager property	tree rules
6	add speech: assert	gerund	such chance not said here		to champions's fame	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to fame=Co-Patient
7	consent		king			nom consent «communication 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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