The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 119

But as all his courtiers were watching him he did not like to make any more objections, and ordered the floor to be taken up, as the young man desired.

Who acts: courtiers, king, young man · What happens: watch, not like, make, order, take up, desire · To what, where: king, more objections, floor

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, king, young man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 watching	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 courtiers	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 courtiers	nmod:poss
5	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watching	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 like	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watching	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 objections	amod
17	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ordered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ordered	cc
20	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ordered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 taken	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 taken	aux:pass
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ordered	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 taken	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 desired	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 desired	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 desired	nsubj
32	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 like	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	king's courtiers	king	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not like	past · do-support	king		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	more objections	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product
4	order	past		the floor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme
5	take up	to-infinitive · passive			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
6	desire	participle	the young man		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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