The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 21
The king shrank back, and ordered the nurse to take the baby away at once.
Who acts: king, nurse · What happens: shrink back, order, take · To what, where: nurse, baby
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, nurse), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrank | nsubj |
| 3 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 shrank | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ordered | cc |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrank | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nurse | det |
| 9 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 away | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink back | past | the king | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | order | past | the king not said here | the nurse | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the nurse not said here | the baby | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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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