The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 56
He bade them go one by one wheresoever they would, while he himself waited by the door till his brothers passed through.
Who acts: prince, brothers · What happens: bade, go, wait, pass through · To what, where: roots, one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, brothers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 go | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | wheresoever | wheresoever | ADV | _ | 10 would | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 would | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waited | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 waited | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waited | nsubj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waited | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 passed | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 waited | advcl |
| 23 | through | through | ADV | _ | 22 passed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | prince | roots = root | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | prince not said here | one | by one | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 3 | wait | past | prince | by the door | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location | ||||
| 4 | pass through | past | prince's brothers | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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