The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 4

So he called his army together and gave orders to start for a distant country where a heathen king ruled who ill-treated or tormented everyone he could lay his hands on.

Who acts: last, heathen king · What happens: call, give, start, rule, treat, torment · To what, where: army, orders, everyone, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, heathen 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 army	nmod:poss
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
9	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 start	mark
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 ruled	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 king	det
18	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 king	compound
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ruled	nsubj
20	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 country	acl:relcl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 treated	nsubj:pass
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 treated	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
24	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ruled	ccomp
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 tormented	cc
26	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 treated	conj
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 tormented	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lay	aux
30	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 treated	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lay	obj
33	on	on	ADV	_	30 lay	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	last	last's army	together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent army=Recipient
2	give	past	last not said here	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	start	to-infinitive	last not said here		for a distant country	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	rule	past	a heathen king			tree rules
5	treat	participle · passive				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	torment	participle		everyone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer
7	lay	could	last	last's hands		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result

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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