Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 13

He ordered that Tell's little boy should be made to stand up in the public square with an apple on his head; and then he bade Tell shoot the apple with one of his arrows.

Who acts: Gessler, Tell little boy, bade · What happens: order, tell, be, make, stand up, bade · To what, where: Tell little boy, public square, shoot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gessler, Tell little boy, bade), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
4	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 boy	compound
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ordered	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stand	mark
12	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stand	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 square	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 square	det
16	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 square	amod
17	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stand	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 apple	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 apple	det
20	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 square	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 apple	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 Tell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Tell	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 bade	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bade	nsubj
28	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Tell	nsubj
29	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	conj
30	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Tell	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 apple	det
32	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Tell	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 Tell	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 arrows	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 arrows	nmod:poss
37	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Gessler					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		Tell little boy				tree rules
4	make	should · passive		Tell little boy				tree rules
5	stand up	to-infinitive	Tell little boy not said here		the public square with a apple on Gessler's head			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in square=Location
6	bade		Gessler			then		tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	bade	shoot			with one of Gessler's arrows	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Recipient apple=Topic

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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