The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 74

The King, who had hoped to join the unknown Princess and find out who she was, was dreadfully disappointed when she disappeared so suddenly, and gave orders that if she ever came again the doors were to be shut that she might not get away so easily.

Who acts: King, Princess, doors · What happens: hope, join, find out, be, disappear, give · To what, where: unknown Princess, orders

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (King, Princess, doors), 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	21 disappointed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hoped	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hoped	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hoped	aux
6	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 King	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 join	mark
8	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hoped	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Princess	amod
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 join	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 join	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 find	compound:prt
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 find	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 who	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disappointed	cop
20	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	21 disappointed	advmod
21	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 disappeared	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 disappeared	nsubj
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disappointed	advcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 suddenly	advmod
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 disappeared	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disappointed	parataxis
30	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gave	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 came	advmod
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gave	advcl
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 doors	det
38	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 shut	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 shut	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	42 shut	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 shut	cop
42	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 came	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 get	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 get	nsubj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 get	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 get	advmod
47	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 shut	advcl
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 get	advmod
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 easily	advmod
50	easily	easily	ADV	_	47 get	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 disappointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · perfect	the King				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the unknown Princess			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	find out	infinitive	the King not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Topic
4	is	past	the King			disappointed, dreadfully property	tree rules
5	disappear	past	Princess			suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	past		orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
7	come a condition, not said to happen	past	Princess		ever; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	the doors			shut property	tree rules
9	not get away	might	Princess			away, easily property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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