The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 55

He felt sure he was right; but to be quite certain he called his daughters to him, questioned them, and ordered them to speak the truth.

Who acts: King · What happens: feel, be, call, question, order, speak · To what, where: daughters, act, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	12 certain	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 certain	cop
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 certain	advmod
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 called	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughters	nmod:poss
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 called	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 questioned	punct
20	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 questioned	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ordered	cc
24	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ordered	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 speak	mark
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ordered	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 truth	det
29	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 speak	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	King			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	King			right property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	King not said here			certain property	tree rules
4	call	past	King	King's daughters	act		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic to he=Recipient
5	question speech: other	past	King not said here	daughters = daughter			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	order	past			daughters = daughter		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive		the truth			tree rules

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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