The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 43
The officer saluted and went back to his men, who started at a gallop to do Jack's bidding.
Who acts: officer, men, Jack · What happens: salute, go back, start, do, bid · To what, where: gallop, bidding
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officer, men, Jack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 officer | det |
| 2 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saluted | nsubj |
| 3 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saluted | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 gallop | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gallop | det |
| 15 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 started | advcl |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Jack | case |
| 20 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the officer | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | the officer not said here | to officer's men result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to man=Result | ||||
| 3 | start | past | officer's men | a gallop | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | officer's men not said here | Jack's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bid | Jack | nom bidding «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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