Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 16
And he ordered the cook to give the lad a good dinner, and then to find some light work for him to do.
Who acts: Fitz, cook · What happens: order, give, find, work, do · To what, where: cook, lad, light
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fitz, cook), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ordered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lad | det |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dinner | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dinner | amod |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 find | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 work | advcl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 work | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Fitz | the cook | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cook not said here | the lad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient dinner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | some light | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic | ||||
| 4 | work | present | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Fitz | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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