The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 35
The King was pleased with the advice, and desired twelve spinning-wheels to be placed in his ante-chamber.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, desire, spin, place · To what, where: twelve spinning wheels, ante chamber
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 | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 advice | det |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 desired | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 desired | cc |
| 10 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wheels | nummod |
| 12 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wheels | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wheels | punct |
| 14 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 desired | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 placed | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 desired | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chamber | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chamber | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ante | punct |
| 22 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | 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 advice; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | the King not said here | twelve spinning wheels | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | place | to-infinitive · passive | the King not said here | King's ante chamber | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in chamber=Destination |
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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