The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 16

The prince faithfully followed his instructions, so that when the judge asked him whether he had meant to steal the bird Grip he said ‘Yes,’ and when the judge asked him if he was a master-thief he again answered ‘Yes.’

Who acts: prince, judge · What happens: follow, ask, mean, steal, say, be · To what, where: instructions, prince, bird Grip, master thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, judge), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	nsubj
3	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	4 followed	advmod
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 instructions	nmod:poss
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 followed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 asked	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 asked	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 judge	det
12	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 meant	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meant	aux
18	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 asked	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 steal	mark
20	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 meant	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Grip	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Grip	compound
23	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 steal	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Grip	acl:relcl
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
27	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	25 said	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 meant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 asked	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 asked	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 judge	det
33	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	nsubj
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meant	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asked	iobj
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 thief	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 thief	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thief	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 thief	det
40	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thief	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 master	punct
42	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	ccomp
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 answered	nsubj
44	again	again	ADV	_	45 answered	advmod
45	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thief	acl:relcl
46	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 thief	punct
47	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	42 thief	discourse
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the prince	prince's instructions			faithfully property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the judge		prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mean	past · perfect	prince					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here	the bird Grip				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grip=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	prince	the bird Grip not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
6	ask speech: ask	past	the judge		prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	prince	a master thief				tree rules
8	answer speech: assert	past	prince	a master thief not said here		again		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thief=Eventuality
9	instruct		prince					nom instruction «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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