The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 5

These he put away in an empty room, and, giving the key to his wife, he bade her tell no one of it.

Who acts: These, he · What happens: put away, give, bade, tell · To what, where: empty room, key, wife, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (These, 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 put	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giving	punct
12	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 bade	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 key	det
14	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giving	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bade	xcomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put away	past	These			a empty room	away property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination
2	give	gerund	he not said here	the key	his wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to wife=Recipient
3	bade	past	he	wife				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	he not said here	no one of key				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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