The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 76

So the jogi directed him to send him secretly two carpenters; and when they arrived he set them to make a great chest, so cunningly jointed and put together that neither air nor water could penetrate it.

Who acts: jogi, carpenters, king, air · What happens: direct, send, arrive, set, make, joint · To what, where: king, two carpenters, carpenters, great chest, Jogi

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jogi, carpenters, king, air), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 directed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jogi	det
3	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 directed	nsubj
4	directed	direct	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 directed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 send	mark
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 directed	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	obj
9	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	10 two	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 carpenters	nummod
11	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 send	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 arrived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arrived	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 arrived	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 arrived	nsubj
16	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 directed	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrived	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chest	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 chest	amod
24	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jointed	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 jointed	advmod
27	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	_	28 jointed	advmod
28	jointed	joint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 arrived	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 jointed	conj
31	together	together	ADV	_	30 put	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 penetrate	mark
33	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 penetrate	nsubj
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 water	cc
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 air	conj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 penetrate	aux
38	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 put	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 penetrate	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 directed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	direct	past	the jogi	king			tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	the jogi not said here	two carpenters	king		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination carpenter=Theme
3	arrive	past	carpenters = carpenter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set	past	king	carpenters = carpenter			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
5	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	a great chest			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chest=Product
6	joint	participle	carpenters = carpenter not said here			cunningly property	tree rules
7	put together	participle	carpenters = carpenter not said here			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	penetrate	could	neither air nor water	Jogi			vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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