The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 78

The king ordered her to speak, and she began to plead for the boy, declaring how good he was, and how he was the support of her old age, and if he were put in prison she would die.

Who acts: king, stir · What happens: order, speak, begin, plead, declare, be · To what, where: stir, support, king, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, stir), 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	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 plead	mark
12	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plead	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declaring	punct
17	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 plead	advcl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 declaring	ccomp
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 good	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 good	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 support	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 support	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 support	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 support	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 support	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 support	det
28	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 age	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 age	nmod:poss
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 age	amod
32	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 support	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 die	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 die	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 put	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 put	aux:pass
38	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 die	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 prison	case
40	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 die	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 die	aux
43	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the king		stir				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	stir						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	stir not said here					for the boy	tree rules
5	declare speech: other	gerund	stir not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	king					good property	tree rules
7	is a	past	king	the support			of stir's old age		tree rules
8	put a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		king		prison			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=Destination
9	die	would	stir						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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