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The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 64

The King commanded her to be brought before him at once, and was much astonished when he saw that it was a girl who undertook to do what all the cleverest doctors of his kingdom had failed in.

Who acts: King, much, girl, cleverest doctors · What happens: command, bring, be, see, undertake, do · To what, where: Grannonia, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, much, girl, cleverest doctors), 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

detnsubjobjmarkaux:passadvclcaseoblcaseoblpunctcccopadvmodparataxisadvmodnsubjadvclmarknsubjcopdetccompnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompobjdet:predetdetamodnsubjcasenmod:possnmodauxadvcladvmodpunctrootTheDETKingPROPNcommandedVERBherPRONtoPARTbeAUXbroughtVERBbeforeADPhimPRONatADPonceADV,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXmuchADVastonishedADJwhenADVhePRONsawVERBthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXaDETgirlNOUNwhoPRONundertookVERBtoPARTdoVERBwhatPRONallDETtheDETcleverestADJdoctorsNOUNofADPhisPRONkingdomNOUNhadAUXfailedVERBinADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Kingdet
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing3 commandednsubj
3commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 commandedobj
5totoPART_7 broughtmark
6bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf7 broughtaux:pass
7broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 commandedadvcl
8beforebeforeADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 broughtobl
10atatADP_11 oncecase
11onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult7 broughtobl
12,,PUNCT_16 astonishedpunct
13andandCCONJ_16 astonishedcc
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 astonishedcop
15muchmuchADV_16 astonishedadvmod
16astonishedastonishedADJDegree=Pos3 commandedparataxis
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 sawadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 sawnsubj
19sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 astonishedadvcl
20thatthatSCONJ_24 girlmark
21ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 girlnsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 girlcop
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 girldet
24girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing19 sawccomp
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 undertooknsubj
26undertookundertakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 girlacl:relcl
27totoPART_28 domark
28dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf26 undertookxcomp
29whatwhatPRONPronType=Int38 failedobj
30allallDETPronType=Tot33 doctorsdet:predet
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 doctorsdet
32cleverestcleverADJDegree=Sup33 doctorsamod
33doctorsdoctorNOUNNumber=Plur38 failednsubj
34ofofADP_36 kingdomcase
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 kingdomnmod:poss
36kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing33 doctorsnmod
37hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 failedaux
38failedfailVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 doadvcl
39ininADV_38 failedadvmod
40..PUNCT_3 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1commandpastthe KingGrannoniavn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2bringto-infinitive · passivethe King not said herebefore Kingvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination
3ispastastonished propertytree rules
4seepastKingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5is apastmucha girltree rules
6undertakepasta girlvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7doto-infinitivea girl not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8failpast · perfectall cleverest doctors of King's kingdomvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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