The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 84

And so it fell out, and as the doves were very beautiful the servant bought them for the king, who admired them so much that he called his son to look at them.

Who acts: innkeeper, doves, beautiful, king · What happens: fall out, be, buy, admire, call, look · To what, where: doves, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (innkeeper, doves, beautiful, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bought	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 beautiful	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doves	det
10	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beautiful	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beautiful	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bought	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 servant	det
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beautiful	nsubj
16	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bought	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 admired	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 admired	nsubj
23	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 king	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 admired	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	29 called	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 called	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj
29	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 admired	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 called	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall out	past	innkeeper				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the doves			beautiful property	tree rules
3	buy	past	beautiful	doves = dove		for the king	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for king=Beneficiary
4	admire	past	the king	doves = dove			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	call	past	king		king's son		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
6	look	to-infinitive	king not said here			at doves = dove	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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 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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