The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 107
And she called the twelve foster brothers and made them vow fealty to herself.
Who acts: pity, hill · What happens: call, make, vow · To what, where: twelve foster brothers, hill, fealty, pity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, hill), 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 | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brothers | compound |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | fealty | fealty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vow | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 vow | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | pity | the twelve foster brothers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | pity not said here | hill | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vow | infinitive | hill not said here | fealty | pity | tree rules |
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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