The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 49
And, turning to one of the lackeys, she bade him find a bed for the youth.
Who acts: princess · What happens: turn, bade, find · To what, where: one, mistress, bed
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bade | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 turning | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lackeys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lackeys | det |
| 8 | lackeys | lackey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | nsubj |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bade | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | princess not said here | one of the lackeys | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to one=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | princess | mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | princess not said here | a bed | for the youth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Theme for youth=Beneficiary |
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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