The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 8
But the King did not like her words, and ordered her to quit the court, and never again to appear before him.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: not like, order, quit, appear, word · To what, where: words, Princess, court
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 like | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 like | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 quit | mark |
| 14 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quit | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appear | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 appear | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 appear | mark |
| 22 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appear | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the King | Princess's words | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the King not said here | Princess | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | quit not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the court | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Source | ||||
| 4 | appear | to-infinitive | the King not said here | before King; again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 5 | word | Princess | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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