The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 23

Then she further bade him to see to her grave that nothing might grow thereon.

Who acts: wife, grave · What happens: bade, see, grow · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, grave), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bade	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bade	nsubj
3	further	further	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
4	bade	bade	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 bade	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 grave	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grave	nmod:poss
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grow	nsubj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 grow	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 grave	acl:relcl
15	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	14 grow	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	wife	man	then	further property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	wife not said here			to wife's grave	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow	might	wife's grave			thereon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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