The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 51

He had had himself carried to a room on the roof, where his nurses thought that he would die at any moment.

Who acts: king, nurses · What happens: have, carry, think, die · To what, where: king, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, nurses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 had	obj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 roof	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 thought	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nurses	nmod:poss
15	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roof	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 die	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 die	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 die	aux
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 die	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	king				tree rules
2	have	past	king not said here	king			tree rules
3	carry	participle	king not said here		a room on the roof		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to room=Destination
4	think speech: other	past	king's nurses				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	die	would	king			moment	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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