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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 77

So, one day, he bade his wife summon their son, when he came back from his journey to the nearest town, where he had been to buy bread.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: bade, summon, come back, be, journey · To what, where: son, journey

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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

advmodpunctnummodobl:unmarkedpunctnsubjnmod:possnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctadvmodnsubjconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblcasedetamodnmodpunctadvmodnsubjauxcopmarkacl:relclobjpunctrootSoADV,PUNCToneNUMdayNOUN,PUNCThePRONbadeVERBhisPRONwifeNOUNsummonVERBtheirPRONsonNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONcameVERBbackADVfromADPhisPRONjourneyNOUNtoADPtheDETnearestADJtownNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVhePRONhadAUXbeenAUXtoPARTbuyVERBbreadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_7 badeadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Sopunct
3oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 daynummod
4daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 badeobl:unmarked
5,,PUNCT_4 daypunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 badensubj
7badebadeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 wifenmod:poss
9wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing10 summonnsubj
10summonsummonVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 badeconj
11theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 sonnmod:poss
12sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing10 summonobj
13,,PUNCT_16 camepunct
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int16 cameadvmod
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 camensubj
16camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 badeconj
17backbackADV_16 cameadvmod
18fromfromADP_20 journeycase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 journeynmod:poss
20journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing16 cameobl
21totoADP_24 towncase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 towndet
23nearestnearADJDegree=Sup24 townamod
24towntownNOUNNumber=Sing20 journeynmod
25,,PUNCT_31 buypunct
26wherewhereADVPronType=Rel31 buyadvmod
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 buynsubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 buyaux
29beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part31 buycop
30totoPART_31 buymark
31buybuyVERBVerbForm=Inf24 townacl:relcl
32breadbreadNOUNNumber=Sing31 buyobj
33..PUNCT_7 badepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1badepastmandaytree rules
2summonpresentman's wifeplans's sonvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3come backpastmanman's journey to the nearest townvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location
4ispast · perfectmanbuy propertytree rules
5journeymanto the nearest townnom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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