The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 38
He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired that I would give him an hour’s audience.
Who acts: Reldresal, coach, I · What happens: order, wait, desire, give · To what, where: coach, audience, Reldresal
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reldresal, coach, I), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 coach | nmod:poss |
| 4 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 desired | cc |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desired | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hour | det |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 audience | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 hour | case |
| 21 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Reldresal | Reldresal's coach | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | Reldresal's coach not said here | at a distance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | Reldresal not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | would | I | a hour's audience | Reldresal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient audience=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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