The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 64
Then he commanded, and they brought out dusty records and archives of the kingdom, and old coins of previous reigns, and compared them faithfully.
Who acts: King, beard · What happens: command, bring out, compare, coin · To what, where: old coins, dusty records, records, previous reigns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, beard), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 records | amod |
| 10 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 archives | cc |
| 12 | archives | archive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 records | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 archives | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coins | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 coins | cc |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coins | amod |
| 19 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 reigns | case |
| 21 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reigns | amod |
| 22 | reigns | reign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 coins | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 compared | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compared | cc |
| 25 | compared | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 compared | obj |
| 27 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 25 compared | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | King | old coins of previous reigns | then | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bring out | past | beard | dusty records and archives of the kingdom | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent record=Patient | |||
| 3 | compare | past | King not said here | records = record | faithfully property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | coin | previous reigns | nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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