Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 30

Then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him in them, that the gnats might no longer be able to reach him.

Who acts: prince, servants, gnats · What happens: order, bring, wrap, be, reach · To what, where: servants, costly coverings, prince

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, servants, gnats), 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 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
8	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coverings	amod
9	coverings	covering	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wrap	cc
11	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrap	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrap	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 able	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gnats	det
18	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 able	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 able	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wrap	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 reach	mark
25	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reach	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	prince	prince's servants	then		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince's servants not said here	costly coverings			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent covering=Theme
3	wrap	present	prince not said here	prince		in warriors = warrior	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in they=Destination
4	is	might	the gnats			able, long property	tree rules
5	reach	to-infinitive	the gnats not said here	prince			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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