The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 19

As King Grumpy was not used to being contradicted in anything, he was very much displeased with his son, and ordered that he should be imprisoned in the tower that was kept on purpose for rebellious Princes, but had not been used for about two hundred years, because there had not been any.

What happens: not use, contradict, displease, order, imprison, keep · To what, where: anything, King, tower, purpose, any

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Grumpy	case
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Grumpy	nmod:desc
3	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	6 used	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 contradicted	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 contradicted	aux:pass
9	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 anything	case
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 contradicted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 displeased	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 displeased	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 displeased	aux:pass
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 displeased	advmod
17	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 son	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 displeased	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ordered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ordered	cc
23	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 displeased	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 imprisoned	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 imprisoned	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 imprisoned	aux:pass
28	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ordered	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 tower	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tower	det
31	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 imprisoned	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 kept	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kept	aux:pass
34	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tower	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 purpose	case
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 Princes	case
38	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Princes	amod
39	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 kept	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 used	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 used	cc
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 used	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 used	advmod
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 used	aux:pass
45	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 years	case
47	about	about	ADV	_	49 hundred	advmod
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 hundred	compound
49	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 used	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 had	punct
52	because	because	SCONJ	_	54 had	mark
53	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	54 had	expl
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 used	advcl
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 any	advmod
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 any	cop
57	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	54 had	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	past · passive				as Grumpy King	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality
2	contradict	gerund · passive		anything			tree rules
3	displease	past · passive	King			with King's son	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	order	past					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	imprison	should · passive	King	the tower			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tower=Destination
6	keep	past · passive	the tower	purpose		for rebellious Princes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on purpose=Location
7	not use	past · perfect · passive			year		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
8	have	past	any	there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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