The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 101

Next day all the knights and princes were to appear before the King and Princess--it had been too late for them to do it the night before--in order that he who had the golden apple might produce it.

Who acts: knights, creature, heaps, knight, golden apple · What happens: appear, be, do, have, produce · To what, where: creature

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, creature, heaps, knight), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appear	obl:unmarked
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 knights	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knights	det
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 appear	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 princes	cc
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knights	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appear	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 appear	mark
10	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 appear	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Princess	cc
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 late	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 late	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 late	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 late	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 late	advmod
21	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 appear	parataxis
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 do	mark
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 late	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl:unmarked
29	before	before	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 order	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 order	case
32	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 late	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 had	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 late	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 apple	det
38	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 apple	amod
39	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 produce	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 produce	aux
41	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	ccomp
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 produce	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	all knights and princes		before the King and Princess; day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location
2	is	past · perfect	creature			late property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	heaps = heap	creature	night	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	have	past	knight				tree rules
5	produce	might	the golden apple	creature			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

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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