The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 74
The King then sent for his daughter, and advised her to submit to fate, as there was nothing else to be done.
Who acts: King, pig, nothing · What happens: send, advise, submit, fate, be, do · To what, where: pig
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, pig, nothing), 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 | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 advised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 advised | cc |
| 10 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 advised | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 submit | mark |
| 13 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 advised | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fate | mark |
| 15 | fate | fate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 submit | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fate | ccomp |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 was | nsubj |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 nothing | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 nothing | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | then | for King's daughter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the King not said here | pig | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | submit not said to happen | to-infinitive | pig not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fate | to-infinitive | pig not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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