The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 39

As he had not had time to prepare his speech beforehand, the King ordered that silence should be kept for three hours, and at the end of that time he spoke as follows:

Who acts: King · What happens: not have, prepare, order, keep, speak, follow · To what, where: speech, silence, time, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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), 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	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 ordered	advcl
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 prepare	mark
8	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 speech	nmod:poss
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prepare	obj
11	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	8 prepare	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 kept	mark
17	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ordered	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 hours	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 hours	nummod
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 follows	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 follows	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 follows	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoke	nsubj
33	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 time	acl:relcl
34	as	as	ADP	_	33 spoke	obl
35	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ordered	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	King		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	to-infinitive	King not said here	King's speech		beforehand property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient
3	order	past	the King				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep	should · passive		silence	hour		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past	King	that time not said here			tree rules
6	follow	present	the King not said here		at the end of that time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
7	speak		King				nom speech «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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