The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 46

That they might be able to write to each other in confidence, he had two seal rings made, one for himself and one for his young queen, and issued an order that no one, under pain of death, was to open any letter that was sealed with one of these.

Who acts: That, king, one · What happens: be, write, have, make, issue, seal · To what, where: each, confidence, two seal rings, order, letter, death

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, king, one), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 able	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 write	mark
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 write	obl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 confidence	case
12	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 write	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	parataxis
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 rings	nummod
17	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rings	compound
18	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rings	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 rings	appos
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 one	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 one	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 queen	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 queen	nmod:poss
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 queen	amod
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 issued	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 issued	cc
32	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 order	det
34	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 issued	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 open	obj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 open	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pain	punct
39	under	under	ADP	_	40 pain	case
40	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 one	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pain	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 one	punct
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 open	cop
45	to	to	PART	_	46 open	mark
46	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 order	acl:relcl
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 letter	det
48	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 open	obj
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 sealed	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 sealed	aux:pass
51	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 letter	acl:relcl
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 one	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 sealed	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 these	case
55	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	53 one	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	might	That				able property	tree rules
2	write	to-infinitive	That not said here		each	confidence		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	have	past	king	two seal rings				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
4	make	participle		two seal rings not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	issue	past	king not said here	a order				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme
6	is	past	no one	a order not said here			open property	tree rules
7	seal	past · passive		any letter			with one of these	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with one=Instrument
8	pain			death				nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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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