The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 26

He ordered the troll-witch who had rolled the apple to him to be torn in pieces between four-and-twenty horses, so that not a bit of her was left, and then for the first time they began really to keep the wedding, and, weary as they were, the sheriff, the attorney, and the bailiff kept it up too.

Who acts: Prince, horses, bailiff · What happens: order, roll, tear, leave, begin, keep · To what, where: troll witch, Prince, pieces, bit, wedding, sheriff

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horses, bailiff), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
4	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 troll	punct
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rolled	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rolled	aux
9	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 witch	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 apple	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolled	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rolled	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 torn	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 torn	aux:pass
16	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rolled	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 torn	obl
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 four	case
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 torn	obl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 four	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 horses	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 twenty	punct
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 horses	nummod
25	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 four	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 left	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	35 left	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 left	mark
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 bit	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 left	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bit	nmod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux:pass
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 torn	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 began	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 began	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 began	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 time	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 time	det
41	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 time	amod
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 began	obl
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 began	nsubj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	conj
45	really	really	ADV	_	44 began	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 keep	mark
47	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 wedding	det
49	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 keep	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 weary	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 weary	cc
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 weary	punct
53	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 began	parataxis
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 sheriff	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 sheriff	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sheriff	cop
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 sheriff	punct
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sheriff	det
59	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 weary	advcl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 attorney	punct
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 attorney	det
62	attorney	attorney	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sheriff	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 kept	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 kept	cc
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 bailiff	det
66	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 kept	nsubj
67	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	conj
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 kept	obj
69	up	up	ADP	_	67 kept	compound:prt
70	too	too	ADV	_	67 kept	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Prince		the troll witch				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
2	roll	past · perfect · passive		the troll witch	Prince				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme apple=Result
3	tear	to-infinitive · passive				pieces		between four and twenty horses	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: in piece=Trajectory
4	leave	past · passive		a bit of two					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	begin	past	horses = horse				then; time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	keep	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here	the wedding					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme
7	is a	past	horses = horse	the sheriff and the attorney					tree rules
8	keep up	past	the bailiff	apple					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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