The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 33

In any case they must not discover her there; so just bidding the ring prepare some food for them, she ran inside, and bound a veil of golden gauze round her head and face.

Who acts: people, wife · What happens: not discover, bid, prepare, run, bound · To what, where: wife, case, ring, food, veil

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 case	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 case	det
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discover	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 discover	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 discover	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 discover	advmod
7	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 discover	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 discover	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 bidding	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 bidding	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 bidding	advmod
13	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 discover	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bidding	obj
16	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bidding	xcomp
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 food	det
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prepare	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prepare	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bidding	parataxis
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bound	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bound	cc
27	bound	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 discover	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 veil	det
29	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bound	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 gauze	case
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gauze	amod
32	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 veil	nmod
33	round	round	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bound	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 face	cc
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 discover	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not discover	must	people	wife	any case; there		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	bid	gerund	people not said here	the ring			tree rules
3	prepare	infinitive	people not said here	some food		for people	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product for they=Beneficiary
4	run	past	wife			inside property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bound	infinitive	people not said here	a veil of golden gauze		round wife's head and face	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location veil=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 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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