The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 53
Bidding her ladies bring her the posy of jewelled flowers which had been given her at the palace, she took each flower in her hand and called it by name, and, in turn, each fairy appeared before her.
Who acts: Bidding ladies, queen, turn · What happens: bid, bring, jewell, give, take, call · To what, where: posy, queen, jewelled flowers, palace, flower, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bidding ladies, queen, turn), 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 | Bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ladies | amod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 posy | det |
| 7 | posy | posy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 9 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 posy | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | iobj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | conj |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 flower | det |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 called | cc |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 called | obj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 name | case |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 called | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 appeared | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 appeared | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 turn | case |
| 36 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 appeared | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fairy | punct |
| 38 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 fairy | det |
| 39 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turn | conj |
| 40 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 appeared | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | bring | present | queen's Bidding ladies | the posy of jewelled flowers | queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination posy=Theme | |||
| 3 | jewell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | jewelled flowers | queen | the palace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient she=Theme at palace=Asset | |||
| 5 | take | past | queen | each flower | queen's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 6 | call | past | queen not said here | flower | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 7 | appear | past | turn and each fairy | before queen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
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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