The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 57

It was taken to the palace and tied at the foot of the Lady Jamila’s raised seat, but she ordered a longer cord to be brought so that it might be able to jump up beside her.

Who acts: girl, it · What happens: take, tie, raise, order, bring, be · To what, where: It, palace, foot, longer cord

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, it), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 taken	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 foot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foot	det
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	18 seat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Jamila	det
14	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Jamila	compound
15	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 seat	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Jamila	case
17	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seat	amod
18	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 ordered	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	nsubj
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cord	det
24	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 cord	amod
25	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ordered	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 brought	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 brought	aux:pass
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ordered	ccomp
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 able	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 able	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brought	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 jump	mark
36	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 jump	compound:prt
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 jump	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		It	the palace		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination
2	tie	participle			the foot of the Lady Jamila's raised seat		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	raise	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	order	past	girl	a longer cord			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cord=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	girl not said here				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»
6	is	might	it			able property	tree rules
7	jump up	to-infinitive				beside girl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Trajectory

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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