The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 14

And Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach tell the princess that she must bide yet a while in a cave amongst the rocks, for they had business on land, and after a while they would return to her.

Who acts: Gille Mairtean, Mairtean, rocks · What happens: tell, bide, have, return · To what, where: princess, cave, business, land, Mairtean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gille Mairtean, Mairtean, rocks), 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	_	9 tell	cc
2	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mairtean	compound
3	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bade	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bade	compound
6	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Mairtean	appos
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bade	appos
8	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ian	flat
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 bide	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bide	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bide	aux
15	bide	bide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 bide	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bide	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 cave	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cave	det
21	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bide	obl
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	24 rocks	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rocks	det
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bide	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 had	case
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	parataxis
29	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 land	case
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 business	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 return	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 return	cc
34	after	after	ADP	_	36 while	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 while	det
36	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 return	obl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 return	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 return	aux
39	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 return	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Gille Mairtean		the princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bide	must	Mairtean			a cave	yet; while	amongst the rocks	tree rules
3	have	past	rocks = rock	business		land			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
4	return	would	rocks = rock		Mairtean		while		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result

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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