The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 116
The king loved figs, and ordered Peppe to be admitted to his presence, and a silver dish to be brought on which to put the figs.
Who acts: king · What happens: love, order, admit, bring, put · To what, where: figs, Peppe, presence, silver dish
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ordered | cc |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 8 | Peppe | Peppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 admitted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 admitted | aux:pass |
| 11 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 presence | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 presence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 admitted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dish | det |
| 18 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dish | amod |
| 19 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 brought | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loved | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 figs | det |
| 28 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the king | figs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fig=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Peppe | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent peppe=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | king's presence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to presence=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | a silver dish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination | |||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | the figs | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fig=Goal |
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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