The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 75
Take them both away,' he continued, turning to his guards, 'and lodge them in the state prison.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: take, continue, turn, lodge · To what, where: eyes, guards, state prison
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 guards | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 guards | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lodge | cc |
| 17 | lodge | lodge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lodge | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 prison | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prison | det |
| 21 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prison | compound |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lodge | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | eyes = eye | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | king not said here | king's guards | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to guard=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lodge | infinitive | you not said here | eyes = eye | the state prison | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in prison=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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