The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 20
At these words the Princess burst into tears, and when the King saw this he ordered her to be shut up in a high tower and carefully guarded till the dangerous magician should either have left the kingdom or been hung on the nearest tree.
Who acts: Princess, King · What happens: burst, see, order, shut up, guard, leave · To what, where: words, this, Princess, high tower, kingdom, nearest tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burst | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burst | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ordered | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ordered | advcl |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ordered | nsubj |
| 17 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 shut | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 shut | aux:pass |
| 21 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ordered | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 shut | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tower | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tower | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tower | amod |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shut | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 guarded | cc |
| 28 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 29 guarded | advmod |
| 29 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shut | conj |
| 30 | till | till | ADP | _ | 33 magician | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 magician | det |
| 32 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 magician | amod |
| 33 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 guarded | obl |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 left | aux |
| 35 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 left | advmod |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 left | aux |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 guarded | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 kingdom | det |
| 39 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 left | obj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 hung | cc |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 hung | aux:pass |
| 42 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 left | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 tree | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tree | det |
| 45 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 tree | amod |
| 46 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hung | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the Princess | this words | into tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the King | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | order | past | King | Princess | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | shut up not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | a high tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | guard | participle | King not said here | till the dangerous magician | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | leave | should · perfect | the kingdom | either property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hang | participle · passive | the nearest tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on tree=Location |
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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