The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 156
Then, in commanding tones, the eldest sister gave him the order they had agreed upon.
Who acts: eldest sister, sisters · What happens: command, give, agree · To what, where: order, Gazer, commanding tones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest sister, sisters), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tones | case |
| 4 | commanding | command | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 tones | amod |
| 5 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tones | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 order | det |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 agreed | aux |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 order | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 agreed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | gerund | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | the eldest sister | the order | Gazer | commanding tones | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient order=Theme | |
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | sisters = sister | the order not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent order=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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