The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 109

Then she commanded her servants to cast Death out of the city, which they did, with such hard blows that he never dared to show his face again in the Land of Immortality.

Who acts: queen, servants, city · What happens: command, cast, do, not dare, not show · To what, where: servants, Death, city, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, servants, city), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 commanded	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 commanded	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cast	mark
7	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 commanded	advcl
8	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 city	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 did	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 city	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blows	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 blows	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blows	amod
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blows	amod
21	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 did	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dared	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dared	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 dared	advmod
25	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 did	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 show	mark
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dared	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 show	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 show	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Land	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Land	det
33	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 show	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Immortality	case
35	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Land	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	past	queen	queen's servants		then		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
2	cast	to-infinitive	queen not said here	Death	the city			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent death=Theme out city=Destination
3	do	past	servants = servant	the city			with such hard blows	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
4	not dare	past	city					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not show	to-infinitive	city not said here	city's face		again	in the Land of Immortality	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in land=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: «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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