The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 127
The king commanded that Alfin should be admitted to his presence, and a silver dish to be brought on which to lay the figs.
Who acts: king · What happens: command, admit, bring, lay · To what, where: Alfin, presence, silver dish, figs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 admitted | mark |
| 5 | Alfin | Alfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 admitted | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 admitted | aux:pass |
| 8 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admitted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dish | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dish | amod |
| 16 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lay | mark |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 figs | det |
| 25 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lay | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the king | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | should · passive | Alfin | Alfin's presence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | a silver dish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination | |||||
| 4 | lay | to-infinitive | the figs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Result |
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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