The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45
Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed and bring back this magician, offering him riches untold if he could restore their noses to their former length.
Who acts: town · What happens: command, drive, bring back, offer, restore · To what, where: royal carriage, magician, riches, town, noses, former length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 6 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carriage | amod |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commanded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 commanded | aux:pass |
| 6 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 commanded | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 speed | det |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drive | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 magician | det |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offering | punct |
| 18 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bring | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 offering | obj |
| 20 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 offering | obj |
| 21 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 offering | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 restore | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 restore | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 restore | aux |
| 25 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 untold | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 noses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 restore | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 length | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 length | nmod:poss |
| 30 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 length | amod |
| 31 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 restore | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past · passive | the royal carriage | instantly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive | with all speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring back | infinitive | this magician | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent magician=Theme | |||||
| 4 | offer | gerund | riches | town | untold property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal rich=Theme | |||
| 5 | restore a condition, not said to happen | could | town | riches's noses | riches's former length | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nose=Theme to length=Recipient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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