The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 77

The king’s men now took counsel whether they ought to take the stranger in before the king, for in his chamber sat the bird Grip along with the weeping princess.

Who acts: men, hoofs · What happens: take, sit · To what, where: counsel, stranger, bird Grip, chamber

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 (men, hoofs), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stranger	det
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 king	case
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 chamber	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chamber	nmod:poss
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Grip	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Grip	compound
27	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obj
28	along	along	ADP	_	32 princess	case
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
31	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 princess	compound
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the king's men	counsel		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
2	take	ought	hoofs = hoof	the stranger			in the king	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stranger=Value in king=Location
3	sit	past	the king's men not said here	the bird Grip	king's chamber		along the weeping princess	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme in chamber=Location

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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