The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 3
And the ring, bidding him take courage, conducted him safely to the dismal place where his wife had lived for ten years.
Who acts: ring, wife · What happens: bid, take, conduct, live · To what, where: him, courage, dismal place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 conducted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidding | punct |
| 5 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ring | acl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bidding | obj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bidding | xcomp |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 conducted | punct |
| 10 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 conducted | obj |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 conducted | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | aux |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | the ring not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the ring not said here | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conduct | past | the ring | him = he | the dismal place | safely property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 4 | live | past · perfect | his wife | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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