The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 44
Then he ordered that, in place of each of the ten horses, two mules laden with silver should be returned by her.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: order, lade, return · To what, where: that, two mules, place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 horses | nummod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 each | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mules | punct |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 mules | nummod |
| 16 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 17 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 mules | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 silver | case |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laden | obl |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 returned | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 returned | aux:pass |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 returned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | that | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 2 | lade | participle | two mules not said here | with silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | should · passive | princess | place of each | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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