The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 88
At the end of a week the pert-king ordered the ashes to be cast upon the dust-heap, and I was found alive and unharmed.
Who acts: pert king, ashes · What happens: order, cast, find · To what, where: ashes, end, dust heap, I
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pert king, ashes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 8 | pert | pert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pert | punct |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ashes | det |
| 13 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cast | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cast | aux:pass |
| 16 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 heap | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heap | det |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 dust | punct |
| 21 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cast | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ordered | conj |
| 27 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 found | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 unharmed | cc |
| 29 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 alive | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the pert king | the ashes | at the end of a week | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ash=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | cast not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the ashes not said here | the dust heap | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon heap=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | I | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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