The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 143
Immediately the King sent for his son-in-law, and commanded him to explain what had happened.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, command, explain, happen · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commanded | cc |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 commanded | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 explain | mark |
| 17 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 commanded | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 explain | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | for King's son in law; immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the King not said here | King | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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