The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 84

They gave him a magnificent burial, and then the prince had to examine the new laws which had been made in his absence, and do a great deal of business besides, till he grew quite ill from fatigue, and was obliged to go away to one of his palaces on the banks of the river, in order to rest.

Who acts: adventure, prince · What happens: give, have, examine, make, do, grow · To what, where: magnificent burial, palace, new laws, absence, great deal, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventure, prince), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 burial	det
5	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burial	amod
6	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 had	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 examine	mark
14	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 laws	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 laws	amod
17	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 examine	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 laws	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 absence	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 absence	nmod:poss
24	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 examine	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deal	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deal	amod
30	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 besides	case
32	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 besides	compound
33	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 deal	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 grew	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 do	conj
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 ill	advmod
39	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	xcomp
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 fatigue	case
41	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ill	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 obliged	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 obliged	cc
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 obliged	aux:pass
45	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 go	mark
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 obliged	xcomp
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 one	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 go	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 palaces	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 palaces	nmod:poss
53	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 one	nmod
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 banks	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 banks	det
56	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 palaces	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 river	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 river	det
59	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 banks	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 rest	punct
61	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	64 rest	mark
62	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 in	fixed
63	to	to	PART	_	64 rest	mark
64	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 go	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	adventure	a magnificent burial	palace				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient burial=Theme
2	have	past	the prince				then		tree rules
3	examine	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the new laws					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the new laws		prince's absence			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	do	infinitive	the prince not said here	a great deal of business besides					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality
6	grow	past	prince					ill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	oblige	past · passive	adventure not said here						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
8	go away	to-infinitive	adventure not said here		one of prince's palaces on the banks of the river			away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location
9	rest	to-infinitive	adventure not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	absent		prince						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	deal			business besides					nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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