The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 60

The retainer was greatly shocked and grieved at the king’s orders, for which he could discover no reason; but, as he had not the heart to destroy three innocent beings, he had a great fire kindled, and in this he burned a sheep and two lambs, so as to make people believe that he had carried out the king’s commands.

Who acts: retainer, king, great fire, people · What happens: be, grieve, discover, have, destroy, kindle · To what, where: orders, reason, heart, three innocent beings, sheep, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (retainer, king, great fire, people), 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 retainer	det
2	retainer	retainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shocked	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shocked	cop
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 shocked	advmod
5	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grieved	cc
7	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shocked	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 orders	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 orders	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grieved	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 discover	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 discover	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 discover	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 discover	aux
18	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grieved	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 reason	det
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 discover	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 had	advcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 heart	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 destroy	mark
31	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	advcl
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 beings	nummod
33	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beings	amod
34	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 destroy	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shocked	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fire	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fire	amod
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kindled	nsubj
41	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 had	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 burned	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 burned	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 this	case
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 burned	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 burned	nsubj
47	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 had	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 sheep	det
49	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 burned	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 lambs	cc
51	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 lambs	nummod
52	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 sheep	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 make	punct
54	so	so	ADV	_	57 make	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 make	mark
56	to	to	PART	_	57 make	mark
57	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shocked	conj
58	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 make	obj
59	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 make	xcomp
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 carried	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 carried	nsubj
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 carried	aux
63	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 believe	ccomp
64	out	out	ADP	_	63 carried	compound:prt
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 king	det
66	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 commands	nmod:poss
67	’s	's	PART	_	66 king	case
68	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 carried	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the retainer			greatly, shocked property	tree rules
2	grieve	participle	the retainer not said here		the king's orders		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	discover	could	king	no reason			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
4	have	past	king	the heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
5	destroy	to-infinitive	king not said here	three innocent beings			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent being=Patient
6	have	past	king				tree rules
7	kindle	past	a great fire				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	burn	past	king	a sheep and two lambs	this		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
9	make	to-infinitive	the retainer not said here	people			tree rules
10	believe	infinitive	people not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	carry out	past · perfect	king	the king's commands			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality
12	order		the king				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent
13	command		the king				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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