The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 27

'The old man bade me bring her, and the duck with the golden neck, and the salmon with the silver sides, to his cottage; if I shall catch them, I know not.

Who acts: old man, I · What happens: bade, bring, catch, not know · To what, where: me, Covan, sides

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, I), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bade	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bade	nsubj
5	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bade	obj
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bade	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 duck	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 duck	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duck	det
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bade	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 neck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 neck	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 neck	amod
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 salmon	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 salmon	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 salmon	det
20	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 sides	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sides	det
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sides	compound
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 salmon	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cottage	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 cottage	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cottage	nmod:poss
28	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 catch	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 catch	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 catch	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 catch	aux
33	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bade	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 catch	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 catch	advcl
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 know	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bade	past	the old man	me		the duck with the golden neck and the salmon with the silver sides and man's cottage obl	tree rules
2	bring	infinitive	the old man not said here		Covan		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	shall	I	sides = side			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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