The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 83

In the end they told him how Sir Red had stirred up the king against them, so that he had ordered them to get for him a boar with bristles of gold and silver time about.

Who acts: Esben, Sir · What happens: tell, stir up, order, get · To what, where: king, end, Sir, Esben, boar · 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, Sir), 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	11 stirred	advmod
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stirred	nsubj:pass
9	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sir	flat
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stirred	aux
11	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stirred	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stirred	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stirred	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 ordered	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ordered	aux
22	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 stirred	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ordered	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boar	det
29	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 bristles	case
31	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bristles	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 time	cc
35	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 time	compound
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gold	conj
37	about	about	ADV	_	25 get	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Esben		king	in the end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stir up	past · perfect · passive		Sir			against Esben	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme king=Eventuality
3	order	past · perfect	Sir		Esben			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	a boar			for Sir; with bristles of gold and silver time; about property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boar=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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