The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 8

By-and-by he, too, came to the cave, and was bidden by the ogress to clean the floor, but he was no more successful than his brother, and his fate was the same.

Who acts: man, ogress, fate · What happens: come, bid, clean, be, fate · To what, where: cave, floor

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ogress, fate), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 he	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 too	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cave	det
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bidden	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bidden	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bidden	aux:pass
17	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 ogress	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ogress	det
20	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bidden	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 clean	mark
22	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bidden	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clean	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 successful	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 successful	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 successful	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 successful	cop
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 successful	advmod
31	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	parataxis
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 brother	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 successful	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 same	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 same	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fate	nmod:poss
38	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 same	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 same	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 same	det
41	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 successful	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	man		the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
2	bid	past · passive	the ogress				tree rules
3	clean	to-infinitive	the ogress not said here	the floor			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
4	is	past	man			than man's brother; successful property	tree rules
5	is	past	man's fate			same property	tree rules
6	fate		man				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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