The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 72
And he bade his servants gather enough kelp from the rocks to make a line, as they had brought none with them.
Who acts: Wolf, servants · What happens: bade, gather, make, bring · To what, where: enough kelp, rocks, line, servants
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 (Wolf, servants), 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 | _ | 3 bade | cc |
| 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 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | nsubj |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | ccomp |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kelp | amod |
| 8 | kelp | kelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gather | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gather | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 line | det |
| 15 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 make | advcl |
| 21 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 none | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | present | Wolf's servants | enough kelp | the rocks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kelp=Theme from rock=Source | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Wolf's servants not said here | a line | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset line=Product | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | servants = servant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination none=Theme |
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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