The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 42

Even then, for some time, the lake was very dirty, and the lion, as king of the beasts, commanded that no one should drink till it was quite clear again.

Who acts: lake, lion, one · What happens: be, command, drink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, lion, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 dirty	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dirty	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dirty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dirty	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 dirty	advmod
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 commanded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 commanded	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lion	det
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 commanded	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 king	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 king	case
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lion	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 beasts	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beasts	det
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 king	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lion	punct
24	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dirty	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 drink	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drink	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drink	aux
29	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 commanded	ccomp
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 clear	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 clear	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 clear	cop
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 clear	advmod
34	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drink	advcl
35	again	again	ADV	_	34 clear	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lake	then; time	dirty property	tree rules
2	command	past	the lion			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drink	should	no one			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	no one not said here	again	clear property	tree rules

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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