The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 13

And calling to the people of the house, he bade them kindle the fire, for Gudu would sleep by it, but that he would pass the night with some friends in another hut.

Who acts: Gudu · What happens: call, bade, kindle, sleep, pass · To what, where: people, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu), 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	_	11 bade	cc
2	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 bade	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 calling	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 calling	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	nsubj
11	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	obj
13	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bade	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kindle	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sleep	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 sleep	mark
18	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sleep	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sleep	aux
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kindle	parataxis
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sleep	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pass	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 pass	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 pass	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pass	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 pass	aux
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bade	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 friends	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 friends	det
33	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pass	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 hut	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 hut	det
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 friends	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	Gudu not said here		the people of the house			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
2	bade	past	Gudu	people				tree rules
3	kindle	infinitive	Gudu not said here	the fire				vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
4	sleep	would	Gudu				by baboon	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	would	Gudu			night	with some friends in another hut	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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