The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 9
One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect enough dry leaves to make beds for herself and him.
Who acts: old woman bade · What happens: go, collect, make · To what, where: forest, enough dry leaves, beds
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman bade), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bade | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | compound |
| 6 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | Antoine | Antoine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | appos |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 collect | cc |
| 13 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaves | amod |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaves | amod |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collect | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 collect | advcl |
| 19 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 herself | case |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 make | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 him | cc |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the old woman bade | the forest | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | collect | present | the old woman bade not said here | enough dry leaves | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the old woman bade not said here | beds | for bade | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Material for herself=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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