The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 5
I then came back to my house and gave orders for a great quantity of the strongest cables and bars of iron.
Who acts: I · What happens: come back, give · To what, where: house, orders
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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 quantity | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quantity | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quantity | amod |
| 14 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cables | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cables | det |
| 17 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 cables | amod |
| 18 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 quantity | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bars | cc |
| 20 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cables | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 iron | case |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bars | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | I | my house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | I not said here | orders | for a great quantity of the strongest cables and bars of iron | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for quantity=Asset |
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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