The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 53

In the end they told him how unreasonable the king was, and how he had ordered them to get for him a dove with feathers of gold and silver time about.

Who acts: Esben, king · What happens: tell, be, order, get · To what, where: grief, end, Esben, dove · 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), 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 unreasonable	advmod
8	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unreasonable	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unreasonable	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ordered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ordered	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 ordered	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ordered	aux
17	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ordered	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 get	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dove	det
24	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 feathers	case
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feathers	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 time	cc
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	compound
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gold	conj
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 time	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Esben		grief	in the end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	the king				unreasonable property	tree rules
3	order	past · perfect	king		Esben			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	king not said here	a dove			for king; with feathers of gold and silver time	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dove=Theme for he=Beneficiary

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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