The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 56

So saying, he commanded the doors to be thrown open, and food and drink to be set before the young man, who, after he had eaten, began to look for the princess.

Who acts: king, young man · What happens: say, command, throw, drink, set, eat · To what, where: doors, food · 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 commanded	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 commanded	nsubj
5	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doors	det
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 commanded	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 thrown	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 thrown	aux:pass
10	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 commanded	advcl
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thrown	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 food	cc
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thrown	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	aux:pass
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 drink	ccomp
20	before	before	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 eaten	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eaten	punct
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	30 eaten	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eaten	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 eaten	aux
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 man	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 commanded	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 princess	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	command	past	king	the doors			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality
3	throw	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here	food		open property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	drink	infinitive	king not said here				tree rules
5	set	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here		before the young man		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before man=Destination
6	eat	past · perfect	the young man				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	begin	past	king not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	look	to-infinitive	king not said here			for the princess	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for princess=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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