The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 81
Then they brought forth the White Sword of Light from the iron closet where it hung, and bade him rub it till he could see his face in the shining blade; and he did so.
Who acts: mistresses, Sword, servant · What happens: bring, hang, rub, see, shine, do · To what, where: White Sword, bade, face, shining blade
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 (mistresses, Sword, servant), 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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sword | det |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sword | amod |
| 7 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Light | case |
| 9 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sword | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 closet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 closet | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 closet | compound |
| 13 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Light | nmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 hung | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hung | nsubj |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 closet | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rub | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rub | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rub | obl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bade | obj |
| 21 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rub | obj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rub | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 blade | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blade | det |
| 31 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 blade | amod |
| 32 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 did | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 did | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 did | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | mistresses = mistress | the White Sword of Light from the iron closet | then | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sword=Destination | ||
| 2 | hang | past | Sword | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rub | present | mistresses = mistress not said here | bade | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | servant | servant's face | the shining blade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | do | past | servant | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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