The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 48

The soldiers wished to kill him at once, but the king said, ‘Leave him alone, put me on a chair,’ and the soldiers who were carrying him knelt on the floor, and he slid from their shoulders on to a chair.

Who acts: soldiers, king · What happens: wish, kill, say, leave, put, carry · To what, where: man, King, me, chair, floor, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kill	mark
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 kill	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Leave	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Leave	punct
16	Leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Leave	obj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 Leave	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Leave	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 chair	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chair	det
24	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Leave	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Leave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 carrying	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 soldiers	det
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 carrying	nsubj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 carrying	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carrying	aux
32	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carrying	obj
34	knelt	kneel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 carrying	xcomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 floor	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 floor	det
37	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knelt	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 slid	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 slid	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 slid	nsubj
41	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	advcl
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 shoulders	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoulders	nmod:poss
44	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 slid	obl
45	on	on	ADV	_	41 slid	advmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 chair	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 chair	det
48	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slid	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	the soldiers				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave	infinitive		King		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	put	infinitive		me	a chair		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on chair=Destination
6	carry	past · progressive	the soldiers	King			tree rules
7	kneel	participle	the soldiers not said here		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
8	slide	past	King		soldiers's shoulders	to a chair	vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location to chair=Destination

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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