The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 109
Then, he commanded Ian Direach to go up to the king's palace, saying that he had been wrecked, that his ship was made fast in a rock, and that none had been saved but himself only.
Who acts: France · What happens: command, go up, say, wreck, make, save · To what, where: Ian, France, ship, rock, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France), 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 | 4 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 commanded | nsubj |
| 4 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 commanded | obj |
| 6 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ian | flat |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 go | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 commanded | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wrecked | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wrecked | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wrecked | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 21 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 made | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ship | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux:pass |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wrecked | conj |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 made | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 rock | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 rock | det |
| 31 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saved | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 saved | cc |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 saved | mark |
| 35 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 38 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 saved | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 saved | aux:pass |
| 38 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 commanded | conj |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 himself | cc |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 saved | conj |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 saved | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | France | Ian | then | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ian=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | to-infinitive | France not said here | to the king's palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | France not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wreck | past · perfect · passive | France | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | France's ship | a rock | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 6 | save | past · perfect · passive | none | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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