The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 112

Thakane answered him as before, and he instantly commanded that she should be taken to the hut of his mother, and placed under her care, while the man should be led to his father.

Who acts: Thakane, Koane, girl · What happens: answer, command, take, place, lead, care · To what, where: Koane, girl, care, man, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, Koane, girl), 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	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	obj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 before	advmod
5	before	before	ADV	_	2 answered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 commanded	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 commanded	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 commanded	nsubj
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	10 commanded	advmod
10	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 taken	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 taken	aux:pass
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 commanded	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hut	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 placed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 placed	cc
24	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 answered	parataxis
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 care	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 care	nmod:poss
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 led	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 led	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 led	nsubj:pass
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 led	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 led	aux:pass
34	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 placed	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 father	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 led	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Thakane		Koane		before property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	command	past	Koane				instantly property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3	take	should · passive		girl			to the hut of Koane's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
4	place	participle				girl's care		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under care=Destination
5	lead	should · passive		the man	Koane's father			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to father=Destination
6	care		girl					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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