The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 123

And, besides, he gave the strictest orders that a guard should walk round the castle night and day.

Who acts: king, guard · What happens: give, walk · To what, where: strictest orders

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, guard), 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	_	6 gave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
3	besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 gave	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 besides	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 orders	det
8	strictest	strict	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 orders	amod
9	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 walk	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 guard	det
12	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	aux
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 orders	acl:relcl
15	round	round	ADP	_	18 night	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 night	compound
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 day	cc
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 night	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	king	the strictest orders					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	walk	should	a guard	the strictest orders			night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory

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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