The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 136
The king was not pleased at the young man agreeing so readily, but he had no choice, and ordered the servant to be taken downstairs.
Who acts: king, young man, servant · What happens: not be, agree, have, order, take · To what, where: choice, servant
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, young man, servant), 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 | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 10 | agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 readily | advmod |
| 12 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 10 agreeing | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 choice | det |
| 18 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 servant | det |
| 23 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | aux:pass |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 27 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 26 taken | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the king | at the young man; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | the young man not said here | readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | king | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 4 | order | past | the servant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the servant not said here | downstairs property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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