The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 87
The King was more glad than anyone else that she had come again, and gave orders that the doors should all be shut and bolted that very minute.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: be, come, give, shut, bolt · To what, where: orders, doors
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), 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 | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 glad | amod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 glad | obl |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 anyone | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 glad | advcl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | conj |
| 17 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 shut | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doors | det |
| 20 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 shut | aux |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 shut | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 shut | aux:pass |
| 24 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gave | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bolted | cc |
| 26 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 shut | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 minute | mark |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 minute | advmod |
| 29 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bolted | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | than anyone; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Princess | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the King not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shut | should · passive | the doors | all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bolt | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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