The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 73
‘Let his mother first put him in order,’ and the queen left the hall, and took the cook’s son and dressed him in the prince’s clothes, and led him up to the giant, who held his hand, and together they went out along the road.
Who acts: you, mother, queen, clothes · What happens: let, put, leave, take, dress, lead up · To what, where: king, order, hall, son, clothes, hand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother, queen, clothes), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cook | det |
| 22 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 cook | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dressed | cc |
| 26 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dressed | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 clothes | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 32 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 dressed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 led | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 led | cc |
| 35 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 led | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 led | compound:prt |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 giant | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 giant | det |
| 40 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 led | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 held | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 held | nsubj |
| 43 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 giant | conj |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hand | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 held | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 went | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 went | cc |
| 48 | together | together | ADV | _ | 50 went | advmod |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 went | nsubj |
| 50 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 led | conj |
| 51 | out | out | ADV | _ | 50 went | advmod |
| 52 | along | along | ADP | _ | 54 road | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 road | det |
| 54 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 went | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | past | king's mother | king | order | first property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 3 | leave | past | the queen | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the queen not said here | the cook's son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination | ||||
| 5 | dress | past | the queen not said here | king | the prince's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 6 | lead up | past | the queen not said here | king | to the giant | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hold | past | king's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go out | past | clothes | along the road; out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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