The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 3
And he instantly ordered one of his attendants to conduct the boy at once to his apartments; and in a moment more the prince entered, holding his sister by the hand.
Who acts: king, one, prince · What happens: order, conduct, enter, hold · To what, where: one, boy, sister
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one, prince), 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 | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ordered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 attendants | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 conduct | mark |
| 10 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conduct | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 conduct | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 apartments | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 17 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 conduct | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entered | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | obl |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 moment | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | nsubj |
| 26 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 holding | punct |
| 28 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 entered | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sister | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holding | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hand | det |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holding | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | one of king's attendants | instantly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | conduct not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of king's attendants not said here | the boy | to king's apartments | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at once=Destination | |||
| 3 | enter | past | the prince | moment | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | the prince not said here | king's sister | by the hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme by hand=Location |
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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