The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 125

Then he remembered that the night before he had disobeyed the orders of the old man.

Who acts: traveller · What happens: remember, disobey, order · To what, where: orders, old man

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller), 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	3 remembered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembered	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 disobeyed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 disobeyed	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 disobeyed	aux
10	disobeyed	disobey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 remembered	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 orders	det
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disobeyed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 orders	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	remember	past	traveller		then; night	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	disobey	past · perfect	traveller	the orders of the old man		tree rules
3	order			the old man		nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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