The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 80
The king then took a great desire for her, and ordered her brother to go home and bring her back with him, for he trusted no one better to accomplish that errand.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, order, go, bring back, trust, accomplish · To what, where: great desire, brother, girl, one, errand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 desire | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 desire | amod |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 desire | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordered | cc |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 trusted | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 trusted | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 trusted | nsubj |
| 27 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trusted | obj |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 trusted | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 accomplish | mark |
| 32 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 trusted | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 errand | det |
| 34 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 accomplish | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | a great desire | then | for girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent desire=Theme for she=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | order | past | the king not said here | girl's brother | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring back | infinitive | the king not said here | girl | with king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 5 | trust | past | king | no one | good property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 6 | accomplish | to-infinitive | king not said here | that errand | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality |
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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