The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 171

The wicked Prince would have liked very much to see her tarred and feathered, but the King ordered that she should be shut up in a dark dungeon.

Who acts: King · What happens: like, see, tar, order, shut up · To what, where: wicked Prince, toad, dark dungeon

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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	3 Prince	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prince	amod
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 liked	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 liked	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 liked	aux
6	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 liked	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 liked	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tarred	nmod:poss
12	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feathered	cc
14	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tarred	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ordered	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ordered	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ordered	nsubj
19	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 liked	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 shut	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shut	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 shut	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 shut	aux:pass
24	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ordered	ccomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 shut	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 dungeon	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dungeon	det
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dungeon	amod
29	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shut	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	would · perfect · passive		the wicked Prince		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tar	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	order	past	the King			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shut up	should · passive		toad	a dark dungeon	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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