The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 138

At a sign from the king, two servants carried in a large empty tub, which they set down in the open space before the throne, and Jesper was told to stand beside it.

Who acts: two servants, servants, Jesper · What happens: carry, set down, tell, stand · To what, where: sign, large empty tub, open space, Jesper, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two servants, servants, Jesper), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sign	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sign	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 servants	nummod
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 tub	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tub	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tub	amod
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tub	amod
15	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 set	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj
19	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tub	acl:relcl
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 space	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 space	det
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 space	amod
24	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 throne	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 throne	det
27	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
30	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 told	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux:pass
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 carried	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stand	mark
34	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	xcomp
35	beside	beside	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stand	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	two servants		a sign from the king		in a large empty tub	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tub=Location
2	set down	past	servants = servant	a large empty tub	the open space	before the throne		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in space=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Jesper				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here		throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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