The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 106

At length the ball came to an end, and then the king ordered all the doors to be shut, and search made for a man with two black dots on his cheek.

Who acts: ball, king · What happens: come, order, be, search, make · To what, where: length, doors

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, king), 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	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ordered	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ordered	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ordered	nsubj
14	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 doors	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 doors	det
17	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 shut	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 shut	cop
20	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ordered	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 search	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 search	cc
23	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 search	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 search	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 dots	case
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dots	nummod
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dots	amod
31	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 search	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 cheek	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cheek	nmod:poss
34	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dots	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the ball		length	to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
2	order	past	the king	all doors		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	the king not said here				shut property	tree rules
4	search	infinitive	the ball not said here				for a man; with two black dots on man's cheek	tree rules
5	make	participle	the ball not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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