The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 91
Then the king rose up in a fury, and commanded Ciccu to be brought before him.
Who acts: king · What happens: rise up, command, bring · To what, where: fury, Ciccu · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rose | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fury | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fury | det |
| 8 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 commanded | cc |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 12 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 commanded | advcl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the king | a fury | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fury=Location | |||
| 2 | command | past | the king not said here | Ciccu | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ciccu=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | before Ciccu | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination |
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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