The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 60
And when the king saw that he really had brought back the Man-eater, he commanded a huge iron chest to be brought, and locked the coffin up inside.
Who acts: king · What happens: see, bring back, command, bring, lock up · To what, where: Man eater, huge iron chest, coffin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 commanded | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 commanded | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 brought | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eater | det |
| 13 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eater | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
| 15 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 commanded | nsubj |
| 18 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chest | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chest | amod |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chest | compound |
| 22 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commanded | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 chest | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 locked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 locked | cc |
| 28 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 commanded | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coffin | det |
| 30 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 locked | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 locked | compound:prt |
| 32 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 28 locked | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bring back | past · perfect | king | the Man eater | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eater=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | past | king | a huge iron chest | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent chest=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | a huge iron chest not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | ||||
| 5 | lock up | past | king not said here | the coffin | inside property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient |
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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