The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 64
He fell down senseless, and the Princess’s father, deeply offended at the cruel revenge which had been attempted, ordered him to be removed and locked up in prison.
Who acts: King · What happens: fall down, offend, attempt, order, remove, lock up · To what, where: father, cruel revenge, King, prison
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 4 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 father | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 offended | punct |
| 12 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 13 offended | advmod |
| 13 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 father | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 revenge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 revenge | det |
| 16 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 revenge | amod |
| 17 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offended | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 attempted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 attempted | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 attempted | aux:pass |
| 21 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 revenge | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 removed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 removed | aux:pass |
| 27 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ordered | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 locked | cc |
| 29 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 removed | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 locked | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 prison | case |
| 32 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 locked | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | King | the Princess's father | down, senseless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | offend | participle | the Princess's father not said here | the cruel revenge | deeply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | attempt | past · perfect · passive | the cruel revenge | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | order | past | King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | remove not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | lock up | participle | prison | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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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