The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 119
Then the King took counsel with himself and sent an order to the Simpleton that he was to have a bath, in a bath-room at the royal palace, and after that the betrothal should take place.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, send, have · To what, where: counsel, order, Simpleton, bath, bath room, place
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 order | det |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Simpleton | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Simpleton | det |
| 14 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bath | det |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 room | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 25 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 room | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 bath | punct |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 30 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 palace | amod |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 room | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 betrothal | case |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 after | fixed |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 betrothal | det |
| 37 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | aux |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King | counsel | then | with King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||
| 2 | send | past | the King not said here | a order | the Simpleton | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent order=Theme to simpleton=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | King | a bath | a bath room at the royal palace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | should | place | after the betrothal | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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