The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 67
Rather unwillingly Marzinne gave him leave, and bade Bernez take the key and unlock the door.
Who acts: Marzinne, bade · What happens: give, leave, take, unlock · To what, where: beggar, key, door
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzinne, 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 | Rather | rather | X | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | unwillingly | unwillingly | X | _ | 1 Rather | goeswith |
| 3 | Marzinne | Marzinne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | appos |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 key | det |
| 13 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unlock | cc |
| 15 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unlock | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Marzinne | beggar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | Marzinne not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | bade | the key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | unlock | infinitive | bade not said here | the door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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