The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 35
The King summoned all his goldsmiths, and they had to work hard day and night, till at length the most magnificent things were completed.
Who acts: King, goldsmiths, length · What happens: summon, have, work, complete · To what, where: goldsmiths, magnificent things
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, goldsmiths, length), 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 | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 goldsmiths | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 goldsmiths | nmod:poss |
| 6 | goldsmiths | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summoned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 night | cc |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 length | punct |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 things | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 magnificent | advmod |
| 23 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 completed | aux:pass |
| 26 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 length | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the King | king's goldsmiths | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | goldsmiths = goldsmith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | goldsmiths = goldsmith not said here | till length; day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | complete | past · passive | length not said here | the magnificent things | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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