The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 35
The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas.
Who acts: King · What happens: command, run, fetch · To what, where: officers, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 commanded | advmod |
| 4 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 officers | det |
| 6 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 commanded | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wardrobe | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 officers | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 commanded | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fetch | cc |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fetch | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 suits | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 suits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 suits | amod |
| 18 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Marquis | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Marquis | det |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Marquis | compound |
| 22 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 suits | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Carabas | case |
| 24 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Marquis | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the King | the officers of King's wardrobe | immediately property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fetch | infinitive | the King not said here | one of King's best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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