The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 77

He ordered them to throw this tail of a drake into the well, to make an end of him.

Who acts: King · What happens: order, throw, make · To what, where: Quack, tail, well, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 throw	mark
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 tail	det
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 drake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drake	det
10	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 well	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 well	det
13	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 throw	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 end	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	King		Quack		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	this tail of a drake		into the well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer tail=Theme into well=Result
3	make	to-infinitive	King not said here	a end of King			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product

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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