The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 250
The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and Frisk also.
Who acts: King · What happens: order, seize, bind · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 seized | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seized | aux:pass |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bound | cc |
| 10 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seized | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ropes | case |
| 12 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bound | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Frisk | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Frisk | cc |
| 15 | Frisk | Frisk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 seized | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seize | should · passive | King | Frisk obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | participle | with ropes | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with rope=Co-Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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