The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 52

She did as she was bid, and soon the others came home from the chase and sat down to supper.

Who acts: need, others · What happens: do, bid, come, sit down · To what, where: need, chase

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 (need, others), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 bid	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bid	aux:pass
6	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 came	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 chase	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chase	det
16	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 supper	case
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	need				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		need			tree rules
3	come	past	the others		the chase	home, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial_Location
4	sit down	past	the others not said here			to supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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