The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 30
He is tied up to that tree; go and take him.'
What happens: tie up, go, take · To what, where: shepherd
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | aux:pass |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tied | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | present · passive | shepherd | to that tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | shepherd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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