The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 83

The young man did as he was bid, and when the lion was made the old woman hid the youth in it, and brought it to the king, who was so delighted with it that he wanted to buy it.

Who acts: young man, old woman, man · What happens: do, bid, make, hide, bring, be · To what, where: man, lion, youth

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 (young man, old woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 bid	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bid	aux:pass
8	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lion	det
13	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bid	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hid	nsubj
19	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hid	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
26	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 delighted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 delighted	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 delighted	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 delighted	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 delighted	advmod
35	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brought	advcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 delighted	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 wanted	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wanted	nsubj
40	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 delighted	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 buy	mark
42	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wanted	xcomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 buy	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the young man			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		man		tree rules
3	make	past · passive		the lion		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	hide	past	the old woman	the youth	in Lion	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Patient in it=Location
5	bring	past	the young man not said here	Lion		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is	past			to the king; with Lion; delighted property	tree rules
7	want	past	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	Lion		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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