The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 30

In the meantime the Prince was kept safely locked up in his tower, and, that he might be as dull as possible, King Grumpy ordered that no one should speak to him, and that they should give him next to nothing to eat.

Who acts: Prince, Grumpy, one, ambassadors · What happens: keep, lock up, be, order, speak, give · To what, where: Prince, meantime, tower, King, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Prince, Grumpy, one, ambassadors), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 kept	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 locked	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tower	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tower	nmod:poss
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ordered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ordered	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dull	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dull	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 dull	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 dull	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 dull	advmod
22	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ordered	advcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 possible	mark
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dull	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dull	punct
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Grumpy	nmod:desc
27	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	28 ordered	nsubj
28	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 speak	mark
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 speak	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 speak	aux
33	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ordered	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 speak	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 give	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 give	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kept	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	next	next	ADV	_	45 nothing	advmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 nothing	case
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 give	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 eat	mark
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 nothing	acl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive		the Prince		the meantime	safely property	tree rules
2	lock up	participle	the Prince not said here			prince's tower		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	might	prince				dull property	tree rules
4	order	past	Grumpy King					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	should	no one		King			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
6	give	should	ambassadors = ambassador	nothing	King			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	ambassadors = ambassador not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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