The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 73

The queen then began to put the room in order and prepare food, so that when the man came home he found everything neat and tidy, and this seemed to give him some pleasure.

Who acts: queen, man, this · What happens: begin, put, prepare, come, find, seem · To what, where: room, order, food, everything, pleasure, man

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 (queen, man, this), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prepare	cc
12	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	conj
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prepare	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 found	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	advcl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 found	obj
25	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 found	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tidy	cc
27	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 neat	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 pleasure	det
36	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the queen				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	the room		order			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Theme in order=Destination
3	prepare	infinitive	the queen not said here	food					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	come	past	the man					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	man	everything				neat property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
6	seem	past	this						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	give	to-infinitive	this not said here	some pleasure	man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pleasure=Theme

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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