The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 63

Now this King had given orders that, in the event of Jack’s coming the guards were to present arms, the people to cheer, and he was to be conducted in triumph to the royal palace.

Who acts: King · What happens: give, come, be, present, cheer, conduct · To what, where: guards, arms, King, triumph

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 given	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 orders	amod
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 ’s	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 event	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 event	det
11	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ’s	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Jack	case
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 event	nmod
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 orders	acl:relcl
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ’s	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 guards	det
17	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coming	obj
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 present	mark
20	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 were	xcomp
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 present	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 people	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 arms	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cheer	mark
26	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 arms	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 conducted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 conducted	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 conducted	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 conducted	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 conducted	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 conducted	aux:pass
33	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ’s	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 triumph	case
35	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conducted	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 palace	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
38	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 palace	amod
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conducted	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 orders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	this King			now		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	come	gerund		the guards				tree rules
3	be	past						tree rules
4	present	to-infinitive		arms and the people				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	cheer	to-infinitive		arms and the people not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	conduct	past · passive		King	triumph		to the royal palace	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in triumph=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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