The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 60

Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the cornet and bade them go after the old man and fetch back the table.

Who acts: man · What happens: summon, go, fetch back · To what, where: hundred lancers, cornet, table

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 (man), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 summoned	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 summoned	nsubj
5	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 lancers	nummod
8	lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 summoned	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 cornet	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cornet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cornet	det
12	cornet	cornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bade	cc
14	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cornet	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bade	obj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 summoned	parataxis
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fetch	cc
22	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 fetch	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fetch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	man	hundred lancers			late property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancer=Recipient
2	go	present			the cornet and bade	after the old man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out cornet=Initial_Location
3	fetch back	infinitive		the table				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme

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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