The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 76

Instead, he sent for his carpenter, and bade him copy it exactly, and when it was done he told his chamberlain to return it to Jack with his best thanks.

Who acts: king · What happens: send, bade, copy, do, tell, return · To what, where: king, carpenter, chamberlain, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Instead	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 carpenter	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 carpenter	nmod:poss
7	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bade	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bade	cc
10	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bade	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 copy	obj
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 copy	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 done	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 done	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 chamberlain	nmod:poss
24	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 return	mark
26	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 return	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Jack	case
29	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 return	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 thanks	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 thanks	nmod:poss
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 thanks	amod
33	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 return	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	king			for king's carpenter; instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bade	past	king not said here	king			tree rules
3	copy	infinitive	king not said here	carpenter		exactly property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	do	past · passive		carpenter			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	past	king		king's chamberlain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient clause=Topic
6	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	carpenter	Jack	with king's best thanks	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to jack=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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