The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 122

In the end they told him that the king had ordered them to bring him a lamp which could shine over seven kingdoms, but such a lamp no one had ever heard tell of.

Who acts: Esben, king, lamp · What happens: tell, order, bring, shine, hear · To what, where: king, end, Esben, lamp, seven kingdoms, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, king, lamp), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ordered	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ordered	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	aux
11	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ordered	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bring	mark
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bring	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lamp	det
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 shine	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 shine	aux
20	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lamp	acl:relcl
21	over	over	ADV	_	22 seven	advmod
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 kingdoms	nummod
23	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shine	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 heard	cc
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 lamp	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lamp	det
28	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 heard	advmod
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	conj
34	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 tell	fixed
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Esben		king	in the end	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	order	past · perfect	the king		Esben		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	a lamp	king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination lamp=Theme
4	shine	could	a lamp	seven kingdoms			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
5	hear	past · perfect	such lamp	tell		ever	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus

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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