The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 4
Then he ordered twelve coffins to be made, and filled them with shavings, and placed a little pillow in each.
Who acts: he · What happens: order, make, fill, place · To what, where: twelve coffins, coffins, little pillow, each
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 coffins | nummod |
| 5 | coffins | coffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 coffins | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 filled | cc |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 filled | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 shavings | case |
| 14 | shavings | shaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pillow | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pillow | amod |
| 20 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | he | twelve coffins | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | he not said here | twelve coffins not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | he not said here | coffins = coffin | with shavings | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with shaving=Instrument | |||
| 4 | place | past | he not said here | a little pillow | each | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme in each=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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