The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

Then he bade Ian take out a sharp knife from under his feathers, which he carried with him for cutting berries, and Ian smote off the giant's head with it.

Who acts: Ian · What happens: bade, take out, carry, cut, smite · To what, where: sharp knife, feathers, berries

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian), 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	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knife	amod
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 feathers	case
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 feathers	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feathers	nmod:poss
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 carried	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	nsubj
17	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feathers	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	obl
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 cutting	mark
21	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 carried	advcl
22	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cutting	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smote	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smote	cc
25	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 smote	nsubj
26	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	31 head	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giant	det
29	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 head	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 giant	case
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smote	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smote	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Ian			then		tree rules
2	take out	infinitive	Ian	a sharp knife	Ian's feathers			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from feather=Initial_Location
3	carry	past	Ian	Ian's feathers			with giant	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	cut	gerund	Ian not said here	berries				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset berry=Product
5	smite	past	Ian				off the giant's head; with knife	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument

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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