The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 19
The Fairy bade them follow her to the castle, and they marched thither in a body, and Jack blew the horn and demanded admittance.
Who acts: men, Jack · What happens: follow, march, blow, demand · To what, where: Fairy bade, castle, body, horn, admittance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Jack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bade | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bade | amod |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 marched | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marched | nsubj |
| 13 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | parataxis |
| 14 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 13 marched | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blew | cc |
| 20 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 blew | nsubj |
| 21 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 marched | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horn | det |
| 23 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blew | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 demanded | cc |
| 25 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 blew | conj |
| 26 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 demanded | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | men = man | the Fairy bade | the castle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | march | past | men = man | a body | thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | blow | past | Jack | the horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | Jack not said here | admittance | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition |
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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