The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 135
The King was about to give this order, when the minister’s son, to save himself from such an indignity, admitted that the story was true.
Who acts: King, indignity, story · What happens: be, give, save, admit · To what, where: order, king, indignity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, indignity, story), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 order | det |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 son | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 minister | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 order | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 save | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 save | mark |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 indignity | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 indignity | det:predet |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 indignity | det |
| 22 | indignity | indignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 admitted | punct |
| 24 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 indignity | acl:relcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 true | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 true | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 true | cop |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 admitted | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the King not said here | this order and the minister's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | the King not said here | king | such indignity | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from indignity=Source | |||
| 4 | admit speech: other | past | such indignity not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the story | true property | tree rules |
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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