The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 56
The next day Arthur would have given orders to his men to make ready to go back whence they came, but Owen stopped him.
Who acts: Arthur, orders, Owen · What happens: give, make, go back, come, stop · To what, where: orders, men, man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arthur, orders, Owen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 given | advcl |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 stopped | cc |
| 23 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would · perfect | Arthur | orders | Owen's men | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to man=Recipient | ||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | past | orders = order | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Owen | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality |
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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