The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 28
He rose in a fury, and although it was not yet daylight, he sent for the Captain of his Bodyguard, and said to him:
Who acts: youngest, fury · What happens: rise, be, send, say · To what, where: fury, daylight, youngest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, fury), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fury | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fury | det |
| 5 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 daylight | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 daylight | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 daylight | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 yet | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 daylight | advmod |
| 13 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daylight | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Captain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Captain | det |
| 19 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Bodyguard | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Bodyguard | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Bodyguard | Bodyguard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Captain | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | youngest = young | a fury | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fury=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | fury | daylight | yet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send | past | youngest = young | for the Captain of youngest's Bodyguard | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | youngest = young not said here | youngest = young | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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