The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 24

Then the King knew how his watching had been done, and fell into such a rage that he ordered his people to chase the youth back to his own home at once; but first they were to cut three red stripes in his back, and rub salt into them.

Who acts: King, watching, people · What happens: know, watch, do, fall, order, chase back · To what, where: rage, people, youth, own home, three red stripes, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, watching, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 done	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 done	nmod:poss
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 done	csubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 rage	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rage	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rage	det
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 ordered	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ordered	nsubj
20	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 people	nmod:poss
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ordered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 chase	mark
24	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ordered	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youth	det
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chase	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	24 chase	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 home	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 home	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 home	amod
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chase	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 chase	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 cut	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 cut	cc
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 cut	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 cut	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cut	aux
39	to	to	PART	_	40 cut	mark
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	parataxis
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 stripes	nummod
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stripes	amod
43	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cut	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 back	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 back	nmod:poss
46	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stripes	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 rub	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 rub	cc
49	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
50	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rub	obj
51	into	into	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 rub	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the King				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch	gerund							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · perfect · passive	watching						vn act-114-1 «NP V»
4	fall	past	the King not said here					into such rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
5	order	past	King		King's people				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
6	chase back not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	the youth		King's own home			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to home=Trajectory
7	cut	past	people	three red stripes		King's back		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stripe=Product
8	rub	infinitive	the King not said here	salt				into people	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into they=Destination

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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