The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 123
And the king owned himself beaten, and commanded that the wedding feast should be held.
Who acts: king · What happens: own, beat, command, hold · To what, where: king, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 owned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owned | nsubj |
| 4 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 owned | obj |
| 6 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 owned | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 commanded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commanded | cc |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 owned | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feast | compound |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 commanded | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | the king | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | participle | the king not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | command | past | the king not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold | should · passive | the wedding feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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