The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 80
So he commanded his guards to capture the young man and bring him before him.
Who acts: man · What happens: command, capture, bring · To what, where: guards, young man, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 guards | nmod:poss |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 capture | mark |
| 7 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capture | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 capture | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | man | man's guards | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent guard=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | capture | to-infinitive | man not said here | the young man | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | man not said here | man | before man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before he=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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