The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 46

So he had ordered the giant who was his servant to fetch her at once.

Who acts: prince, giant · What happens: order, be, fetch · To what, where: giant, servant

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 (prince, giant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ordered	aux
4	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 servant	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 servant	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 servant	nmod:poss
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fetch	mark
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 servant	acl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fetch	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 fetch	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	prince		the giant	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
2	is a	past	the giant	prince's servant		tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive	prince not said here	giant		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at once=Asset

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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