The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 65
The King’s physicians at first laughed at the unknown wayfarer, but the Sultan ordered that the stranger should be admitted.
Who acts: physicians, Sultan · What happens: laugh, order, admit · To what, where: unknown wayfarer, stranger
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 (physicians, Sultan), 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 physicians | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 first | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 laughed | obl |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 wayfarer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wayfarer | det |
| 10 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wayfarer | amod |
| 11 | wayfarer | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 admitted | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stranger | det |
| 19 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 admitted | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 admitted | aux:pass |
| 22 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordered | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the King's physicians | the unknown wayfarer | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the Sultan | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | should · passive | the stranger | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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