The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 83
He commanded that the furnace should be heated, and this tail of a drake thrown into it, because he must be a sorcerer.
Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: command, heat, throw, be · To what, where: furnace, drake, sorcerer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Drakestail), 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 commanded | nsubj |
| 2 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 heated | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 furnace | det |
| 5 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 heated | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heated | aux:pass |
| 8 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tail | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tail | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tail | det |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heated | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 drake | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drake | det |
| 15 | drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tail | nmod |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 drake | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thrown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sorcerer | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 sorcerer | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sorcerer | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sorcerer | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sorcerer | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sorcerer | det |
| 25 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Drakestail | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | heat | should · passive | the furnace | this tail of a drake obl | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw | participle | a drake not said here | furnace | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into it=Result | ||||
| 4 | is a | must | Drakestail | a sorcerer | tree rules |
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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