The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 122

He instantly sent for his master builder, and bade him construct a strong castle on the top of a mountain, which should be fitted with the most precious things from the king’s own palace, and every kind of toy a child could wish to play with.

Who acts: king, child · What happens: send, construct, fit, wish, play · To what, where: bade, strong castle, kind

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 builder	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 builder	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 builder	compound
7	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 construct	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 construct	cc
10	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 construct	obl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	construct	construct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 castle	det
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 castle	amod
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 construct	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 castle	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 top	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fitted	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fitted	nsubj:pass
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fitted	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 fitted	aux:pass
26	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 castle	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 things	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 things	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 precious	advmod
30	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fitted	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	37 palace	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 palace	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 king	case
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 palace	amod
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 things	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 kind	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 kind	cc
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 kind	det
41	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wish	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 toy	case
43	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kind	nmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 child	det
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wish	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 wish	aux
47	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 construct	ccomp
48	to	to	PART	_	49 play	mark
49	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wish	xcomp
50	with	with	ADP	_	49 play	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	king		for king's master builder; instantly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	construct	present	king not said here	bade		tree rules
3	fit	should · passive		a strong castle	with the precious things from the king's own palace	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	wish	could	a child	every kind of toy		tree rules
5	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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