The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 40

And when the mother came again to tell him that his orders had been fulfilled he received her with great honour, and bade her tell her son that the wedding was fixed for the following day.

Who acts: mother, man · What happens: come, tell, fulfil, receive, bade, fix · To what, where: man, orders, mother, son, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 received	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 received	advcl
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fulfilled	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 orders	nmod:poss
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fulfilled	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fulfilled	aux:pass
15	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 received	nsubj
17	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 received	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 honour	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 honour	amod
21	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 received	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bade	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bade	cc
24	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 received	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bade	xcomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 fixed	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wedding	det
31	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fixed	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fixed	aux:pass
33	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tell	advcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 day	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 day	det
36	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 day	amod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fixed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the mother			again		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the mother not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	fulfil	past · perfect · passive		man's orders				tree rules
4	receive	past	man	mother			with great honour	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	bade	past	man not said here					tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	mother		mother's son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
7	fix	past · passive		the wedding		day		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
8	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	order		man					nom order «communication 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 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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