The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 85
To her great joy he consented, bidding her set out for the city of the dwarfs and to tell them exactly what she wanted.
Who acts: Brownie, Barbaik · What happens: consent, bid out, tell, want, joy · To what, where: set, horses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brownie, Barbaik), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consented | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 consented | nsubj |
| 6 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bidding | punct |
| 8 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 consented | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 set | nmod:poss |
| 10 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bidding | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 bidding | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bidding | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dwarfs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwarfs | det |
| 17 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 city | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consented | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 23 what | advmod |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 wanted | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wanted | nsubj |
| 25 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Brownie | to Barbaik's great joy | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid out | gerund | Brownie not said here | Barbaik's set | for the city of the dwarfs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Brownie not said here | horses = horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | want | past | Barbaik | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | joy | Barbaik | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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