The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 95
She had forgotten to ask for one, and the wicked dwarfs had carried out her orders to the letter!
Who acts: wife · What happens: forget, not ask, carry out, order · To what, where: wicked dwarfs
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgotten | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dwarfs | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dwarfs | amod |
| 12 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 forgotten | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carried | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 orders | nmod:poss |
| 17 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 letter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 letter | det |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | wife not said here | for one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry out | past · perfect · passive | the wicked dwarfs | to the letter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | wife | nom order «communication 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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