The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 98
Soon after, the magician came back from the forest, and told the housekeeper to bring them something to eat.
Who acts: magician, housekeeper · What happens: come back, tell, bring, eat · To what, where: forest, housekeeper, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, housekeeper), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 housekeeper | det |
| 15 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 something | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the magician | the forest | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the magician not said here | the housekeeper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent housekeeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the housekeeper not said here | eyes = eye | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the housekeeper not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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: «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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