The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 117

The king had no choice but to give the man the letter, and he strode off, making short work of the distance that lay between the palace and the Underworld.

Who acts: king, distance · What happens: have, give, stride off, make, lie, work · To what, where: choice, letter, man, short work, palace

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, distance), 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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 choice	det
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letter	det
12	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strode	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strode	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 strode	nsubj
16	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 strode	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
19	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 strode	advcl
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 work	amod
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 making	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 distance	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 distance	det
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 work	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 distance	acl:relcl
27	between	between	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Underworld	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Underworld	det
32	Underworld	Underworld	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 palace	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the king	no choice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the letter	the man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient letter=Theme
3	stride off	past	king				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund	king not said here	short work of the distance			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product
5	lie	past	the distance			the palace and the Underworld	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between palace=Location
6	work		the distance				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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