The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 170
So she thanked Charming, and ordered that preparations should be made for her departure, and they soon set out together.
Who acts: Charming, preparations · What happens: thank, order, make, set out, depart · To what, where: Charming, preparations
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, preparations), 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 | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ordered | cc |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 9 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 departure | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 departure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 set | advmod |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Charming | Charming | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Charming not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | should · passive | preparations | for Charming's departure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for departure=Asset | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | preparations = preparation | soon, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | depart | Charming | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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 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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