The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
'Then be quick and bring it up,' commanded the wolf.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, bring up, command · To what, where: water, wolf · 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 (you), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 quick | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 bring | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quick | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | then | quick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring up | infinitive | you not said here | water | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | command | past | you not said here | the wolf | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality |
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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