The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 84
And the King ordered the Page to come and lead the Queen’s horse.
Who acts: King, Page · What happens: order, come, lead · To what, where: Page, horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Page), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Page | det |
| 6 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lead | cc |
| 10 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Queen | case |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lead | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | the Page | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent page=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Page not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | infinitive | the Page not said here | the Queen's horse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
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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