The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 2

But the colonel ordered six of them to be seized and delivered bound into my hands.

Who acts: colonel · What happens: order, seize, deliver, bind · To what, where: six

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colonel), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 ordered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colonel	det
3	colonel	colonel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ordered	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 six	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 seized	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seized	aux:pass
10	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ordered	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 delivered	cc
12	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seized	conj
13	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 delivered	xcomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bound	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	the colonel	six of arrows		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme
2	seize	to-infinitive · passive	the colonel not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
3	deliver	participle	the colonel not said here			tree rules
4	bind	participle	the colonel not said here		into my hands	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into hand=Co-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 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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