The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 28
The King was pleased with the Lion’s advice, and ordered the peas to be strewn in his ante-room.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, order · To what, where: peas, ante room
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 advice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordered | cc |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 peas | det |
| 14 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 strewn | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 strewn | cop |
| 17 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ordered | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ante | punct |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strewn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | with the Lion's advice; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the peas | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | King's ante room | strewn property | tree rules |
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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