The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 30
When the king heard this he ordered his great golden carriage to be prepared, and in it to be placed some magnificent robes; and the old woman wrapped herself in a thick veil, and was driven to the castle.
Who acts: king, old woman · What happens: hear, order, be, place, wrap, drive · To what, where: this, great golden carriage, carriage, woman, thick veil, castle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ordered | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carriage | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carriage | amod |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 prepared | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prepared | cop |
| 14 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carriage | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 placed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 placed | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 placed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 placed | aux:pass |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 robes | det |
| 23 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 robes | amod |
| 24 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 placed | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 wrapped | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wrapped | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woman | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 woman | amod |
| 29 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wrapped | nsubj |
| 30 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ordered | conj |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 wrapped | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 veil | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 veil | det |
| 34 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 veil | amod |
| 35 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wrapped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 driven | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 driven | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 driven | aux:pass |
| 39 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 wrapped | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 castle | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 castle | det |
| 42 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 driven | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | King | King's great golden carriage | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's great golden carriage not said here | prepared property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | place | to-infinitive · passive | carriage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme robe=Destination | |||||
| 5 | wrap | past | the old woman | woman | a thick veil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in veil=Destination | |||
| 6 | drive | past · passive | the old woman not said here | the castle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: to castle=Trajectory |
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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