The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 36
Summoning one of her servants, she bade him go and rescue the stranger, and bring him to her.
Who acts: queen · What happens: summon, bade, go, rescue, bring · To what, where: one, sword, stranger, queen
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), 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 | Summoning | summon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bade | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Summoning | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 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 | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Summoning | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bade | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rescue | cc |
| 12 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stranger | det |
| 14 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rescue | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | gerund | queen not said here | one of queen's servants | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | queen | sword | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | queen not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rescue | infinitive | queen not said here | the stranger | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | queen not said here | sword | queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Destination |
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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