The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 48

On the second day of their journey Labakan questioned Omar as to the orders he had to carry out, and to his surprise heard this tale.

Who acts: Labakan, orders, surprise, confidences · What happens: question, have, carry out, hear, journey, surprise · To what, where: Omar, orders, tale

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, orders, surprise, confidences), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 questioned	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
8	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 journey	appos
9	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 questioned	obj
11	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 orders	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 orders	det
14	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 questioned	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 orders	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 carry	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 surprise	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 surprise	nmod:poss
24	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 questioned	conj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 tale	det
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past			Omar	day	as the orders	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent omar=Recipient as order=Attribute
2	have	past	Labakan	the orders not said here				tree rules
3	carry out	to-infinitive	the orders not said here					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	Labakan's surprise	this tale				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
5	journey		confidences = confidence					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	surprise		Labakan					nom surprise «feeling 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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