The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 120

Now the bath-room was built of iron, and the King gave orders that it was to be heated to such a pitch that it would suffocate the Simpleton.

Who acts: King, room · What happens: build, give, heat, suffocate · To what, where: bath room, orders, room, Simpleton

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, room), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 built	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bath	punct
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 iron	case
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	conj
15	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 heated	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heated	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heated	aux:pass
19	to	to	PART	_	21 heated	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 heated	aux:pass
21	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gave	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 pitch	case
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 pitch	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pitch	det
25	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heated	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 suffocate	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 suffocate	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 suffocate	aux
29	suffocate	suffocate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heated	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Simpleton	det
31	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 suffocate	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the bath room	now	of iron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	give	past	the King	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	heat	past · passive		room		to such pitch result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to pitch=Result
4	suffocate	would	room	the Simpleton			vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent simpleton=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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