The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 4
The king grew pale with sorrow and anger, and ordered them to summon his trusted retainer, to whom he had sent the instructions that the queen and the whelps were to be carefully looked after.
Who acts: king · What happens: grow, order, summon, trust, send, look · To what, where: sorrow, trusted retainer, instructions
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sorrow | case |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 anger | cc |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sorrow | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 summon | mark |
| 14 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 retainer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 retainer | amod |
| 17 | retainer | retainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summon | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sent | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sent | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sent | aux |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 summon | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 instructions | det |
| 25 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sent | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 whelps | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 whelps | det |
| 31 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 queen | conj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 looked | aux:pass |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 looked | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 looked | aux:pass |
| 35 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 36 looked | advmod |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 instructions | acl:relcl |
| 37 | after | after | ADV | _ | 36 looked | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the king | with sorrow and anger; pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | sorrow | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | summon not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's trusted retainer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retainer=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | send | past · perfect | king | the instructions | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme to whom=Destination | ||||
| 6 | look | past · passive | king not said here | the instructions | after, carefully property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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