The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 37

I put his lordship into my coat pocket, and, giving orders to a trusty servant to admit no one, I fastened the door, placed my visitor on the table, and sat down by it.

Who acts: I · What happens: put, give, admit, fasten, place, sit down · To what, where: lordship, coat pocket, orders, trusty servant, one, door

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lordship	nmod:poss
4	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pocket	compound
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giving	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 giving	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giving	punct
12	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
13	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 giving	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 servant	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 servant	det
16	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 servant	amod
17	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 admit	mark
19	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 giving	advcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 admit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fastened	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fastened	nsubj
24	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fastened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 placed	punct
28	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fastened	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 visitor	nmod:poss
30	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placed	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 table	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 table	det
33	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sat	cc
36	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 sat	compound:prt
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sat	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	I	Emperor's lordship		my coat pocket		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lordship=Goal
2	give	gerund	I not said here	orders	a trusty servant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to servant=Recipient
3	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	no one				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	fasten	past	I	the door				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	place	participle	I not said here	my visitor		the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme on table=Destination
6	sit down	past	I not said here				by table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location

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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