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The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 15

She promised to observe, very exactly, whatever he had ordered; when he, after having embraced her, got into his coach and proceeded on his journey.

Who acts: manner, beard · What happens: promise, observe, order, have, embrace, get · To what, where: whatever, manner, coach, journey

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, beard), 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

nsubjmarkxcomppunctadvmodadvmodpunctobjnsubjauxadvclpunctmarknsubjpunctmarkadvclparataxisobjpunctconjcasenmod:possoblccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootShePRONpromisedVERBtoPARTobserveVERB,PUNCTveryADVexactlyADV,PUNCTwhateverPRONhePRONhadAUXorderedVERB;PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRON,PUNCTafterSCONJhavingVERBembracedVERBherPRON,PUNCTgotVERBintoADPhisPRONcoachNOUNandCCONJproceededVERBonADPhisPRONjourneyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 promisednsubj
2promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_4 observemark
4observeobserveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 promisedxcomp
5,,PUNCT_6 verypunct
6veryveryADV_7 exactlyadvmod
7exactlyexactlyADV_4 observeadvmod
8,,PUNCT_12 orderedpunct
9whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel12 orderedobj
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 orderednsubj
11hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 orderedaux
12orderedorderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 observeadvcl
13;;PUNCT_19 embracedpunct
14whenwhenSCONJ_18 havingmark
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 havingnsubj
16,,PUNCT_18 havingpunct
17afterafterSCONJ_18 havingmark
18havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 embracedadvcl
19embracedembraceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 promisedparataxis
20hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 embracedobj
21,,PUNCT_22 gotpunct
22gotgetVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 embracedconj
23intointoADP_25 coachcase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 coachnmod:poss
25coachcoachNOUNNumber=Sing22 gotobl
26andandCCONJ_27 proceededcc
27proceededproceedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 embracedconj
28ononADP_30 journeycase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 journeynmod:poss
30journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing27 proceededobl
31..PUNCT_2 promisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepastmannervn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2observe not said to happento-infinitivemanner not said hereexactly propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3orderpast · perfectbeardwhatevervn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme
4havegerundbeardvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5embracepastmannervn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
6getpastbeard's coachvn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination
7proceedpastbeard's journeyvn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
8journeybeardnom journey «act transitive»: 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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