The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 55
So the youths were bidden to appear before the council, and Oireal the elder was smaller and weaker than his brother.
Who acts: Oireal · What happens: bid, appear, be · To what, where: youths, council
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 (Oireal), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 bidden | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youths | det |
| 3 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bidden | aux:pass |
| 5 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 appear | mark |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bidden | xcomp |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 council | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 council | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smaller | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smaller | cc |
| 13 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 smaller | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elder | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smaller | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 smaller | cop |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 bidden | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weaker | cc |
| 19 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 smaller | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weaker | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past · passive | the youths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | the council | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before council=Location | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Oireal | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Oireal not said here | than Oireal's brother | 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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