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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 60

The king and the queen were greatly pleased, as the young man was the son of a neighbouring king, and they gave orders that a splendid feast should be got ready.

Who acts: king, young man, men · What happens: be, neighbour, give, get · To what, where: orders, splendid feast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, young man, men), 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

detnsubjccdetconjcopadvmodpunctcasedetamodnsubjcopdetparataxiscasedetamodnmodpunctccnsubjconjobjobldetamodnsubjauxaux:passacl:relclxcomppunctrootTheDETkingNOUNandCCONJtheDETqueenNOUNwereAUXgreatlyADVpleasedADJ,PUNCTasADPtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNwasAUXtheDETsonNOUNofADPaDETneighbouringVERBkingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONgaveVERBordersNOUNthatPRONaDETsplendidADJfeastNOUNshouldAUXbeAUXgotVERBreadyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 pleasednsubj
3andandCCONJ_5 queencc
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 queendet
5queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing2 kingconj
6werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 pleasedcop
7greatlygreatlyADV_8 pleasedadvmod
8pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Posrootroot
9,,PUNCT_16 sonpunct
10asasADP_16 soncase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 mandet
12youngyoungADJDegree=Pos13 manamod
13manmanNOUNNumber=Sing16 sonnsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 soncop
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 sondet
16sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing8 pleasedparataxis
17ofofADP_20 kingcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 kingdet
19neighbouringneighbourVERBVerbForm=Ger20 kingamod
20kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing16 sonnmod
21,,PUNCT_24 gavepunct
22andandCCONJ_24 gavecc
23theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 gavensubj
24gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 pleasedconj
25ordersorderNOUNNumber=Plur24 gaveobj
26thatthatPRONPronType=Rel32 gotobl
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 feastdet
28splendidsplendidADJDegree=Pos29 feastamod
29feastfeastNOUNNumber=Sing32 gotnsubj
30shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin32 gotaux
31bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf32 gotaux:pass
32gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 ordersacl:relcl
33readyreadyADJDegree=Pos32 gotxcomp
34..PUNCT_8 pleasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe king and the queengreatly, pleased propertytree rules
2ispastthe young manas the son; of a neighbouring kingtree rules
3neighbourgerundtree rules
4givepastmen = manordersvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5getshould · passivea splendid feastorders obl; ready propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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