The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 41

Then he bade his wife make a cake, but instead she made two, and offered Ruais his choice, as she had done to Ardan.

Who acts: father, wife · What happens: bade, make, offer, do · To what, where: cake, two, choice, Ruais, Ardan

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cake	det
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 made	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 offered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 offered	cc
17	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	parataxis
18	Ruais	Ruais	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 offered	iobj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 choice	nmod:poss
20	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 offered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 offered	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Ardan	case
27	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 done	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	father			then		tree rules
2	make	present	father's wife	a cake				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product
3	make	past	wife	two			instead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Product
4	offer	past		father's choice	Ruais			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent ruais=Goal choice=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	wife		Ardan			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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