The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 110
Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party.
Who acts: King · What happens: order, contain, drink up · To what, where: forty casks, forty gallons, spot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 5 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Next | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 casks | mark |
| 7 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 casks | nummod |
| 8 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ordered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 casks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 containing | punct |
| 12 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ordered | advcl |
| 13 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 gallons | nummod |
| 14 | gallons | gallon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 containing | obj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 gallons | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drunk | punct |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drunk | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drunk | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 drunk | aux:pass |
| 20 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ordered | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drunk | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spot | det |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drunk | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Simpleton | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Simpleton | det |
| 27 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spot | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 party | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 party | nmod:poss |
| 30 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Simpleton | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | forty casks of wine | next property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the King not said here | forty gallons each | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gallon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink up | past · passive | the King not said here | the spot by the Simpleton and King's party | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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