The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 44

Thereupon, in spite of the King’s orders, the guards gave him an excellent supper, and when he had eaten it he again opened his book, but could see none of the wonderful pictures, which convinced him that he must have been dreaming before.

Who acts: guards, noise, King · What happens: give, eat, open, see, convince, dream · To what, where: excellent supper, noise, spite, supper, book, none

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 (guards, noise, 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	13 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thereupon	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 orders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 orders	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spite	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guards	det
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 supper	det
16	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 supper	amod
17	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eaten	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 gave	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 opened	nsubj
26	again	again	ADV	_	27 opened	advmod
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 book	nmod:poss
29	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opened	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gave	conj
34	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	33 see	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 pictures	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pictures	det
37	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pictures	amod
38	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 none	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 convinced	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 convinced	nsubj
41	convinced	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 none	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 convinced	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 dreaming	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 dreaming	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 dreaming	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 dreaming	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 dreaming	aux
48	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 convinced	advcl
49	before	before	ADV	_	48 dreaming	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the guards	a excellent supper	noise	spite of the King's orders		thereupon property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient supper=Theme
2	eat	past · perfect	noise	supper					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	open	past	noise	noise's book			again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme
4	see	could	the guards not said here	none					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus
5	convince	past		noise					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	dream	must · perfect · progressive	noise					before property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	spite			the King's orders					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	order		the King						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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