The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 105

The king was frightened indeed, and thought she was raving, but in order to please her, he said, ‘Well, of these three things I shall choose the last; if you die, I shall lay you at once in a plain wooden chest, and have it set in the church, and every night I shall place a sentinel beside it.

Who acts: Princess, tuft, I, you, Chest, night · What happens: frighten, think, rave, please, say, choose · To what, where: king, Princess, last, you, plain wooden chest, Chest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, tuft, I, you), 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	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 raving	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raving	aux
11	raving	rave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
14	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 please	mark
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 in	fixed
16	to	to	PART	_	17 please	mark
17	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 please	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 please	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raving	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 raving	punct
24	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 raving	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 things	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 things	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 things	nummod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raving	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 choose	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 choose	aux
32	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 things	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 last	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 choose	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 lay	punct
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 die	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 die	nsubj
38	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 lay	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 die	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 lay	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 lay	aux
42	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 lay	obj
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 once	case
45	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	42 lay	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 chest	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 chest	det
48	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 chest	amod
49	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 chest	amod
50	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lay	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 have	cc
53	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 lay	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 have	obj
55	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 have	xcomp
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 church	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 church	det
58	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 set	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 place	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 place	cc
61	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	62 night	det
62	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 place	nsubj
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 place	nsubj
64	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 place	aux
65	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	parataxis
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 sentinel	det
67	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 place	appos
68	beside	beside	ADP	_	69 it	case
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 sentinel	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the king		indeed property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	rave speech: other	past · progressive	Princess			of this three things	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	please	to-infinitive	tuft not said here	Princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	tuft				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	choose	shall	I	the last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme
7	die a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	lay	shall	I	you	a plain wooden chest		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme at once=Destination
9	have	infinitive	I not said here	Chest			tree rules
10	set	participle	Chest not said here		the church		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in church=Destination
11	place	shall	every night				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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