The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 64
One day Manus, son of Oireal, and his cousin, the son of Iarlaid, called to their foster brothers, and bade them come and play a game at shinny in the great field near the school where they were taught all that princes and nobles should know.
Who acts: cousin, that · What happens: call, bade, come, play, teach, know · To what, where: son, foster brothers, sons, game, shinny · 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 (cousin, that), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Manus | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Oireal | case |
| 7 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cousin | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Iarlaid | case |
| 16 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brothers | compound |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bade | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bade | cc |
| 25 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cousin | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bade | obj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Manus | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 play | cc |
| 29 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 game | det |
| 31 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 play | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 shinny | case |
| 33 | shinny | shinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 play | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 field | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 field | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 field | amod |
| 37 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 play | obl |
| 38 | near | near | ADP | _ | 40 school | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 school | det |
| 40 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 play | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 taught | advmod |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 taught | aux:pass |
| 44 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 school | acl:relcl |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 know | det:predet |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 know | nsubj |
| 47 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 know | nsubj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 nobles | cc |
| 49 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 princes | conj |
| 50 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 know | aux |
| 51 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 taught | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the son of Iarlaid not said here | sons's foster brothers | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | Oireal's cousin not said here | sons = son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Oireal's cousin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | Oireal's cousin not said here | a game | shinny | in the great field; near the school | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||
| 5 | teach speech: other | past · passive | sons = son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | know | should | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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