The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 42
I have ordered that she shall be buried at once.’
Who acts: I · What happens: order, bury · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | aux |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 buried | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 buried | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 buried | aux:pass |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 buried | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · perfect | I | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bury | shall · passive | Princess | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at once=Destination |
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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