The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 15
He at once made up his mind that it was entirely the Princess’s fault, and gave orders that she should be imprisoned in the tower in Prince Curlicue’s place.
Who acts: King, mind · What happens: make up, be, give, imprison, mind · To what, where: mind, fault, orders, Princess, tower
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mind), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 made | obl |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 fault | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fault | cop |
| 11 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 15 fault | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fault | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 imprisoned | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 imprisoned | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 imprisoned | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 24 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gave | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 tower | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tower | det |
| 27 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 imprisoned | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Curlicue | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Curlicue | Curlicue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 place | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Curlicue | case |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 imprisoned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | King | King's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | mind | the Princess's fault | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | King not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | imprison | should · passive | Princess | the tower | in Curlicue Prince's place | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tower=Destination | |||
| 5 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition 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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