The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 49

His companions agreed, and then he told his wife to put a mattress in the stable.

Who acts: companions, donkey · What happens: agree, tell, put · To what, where: wife, mattress, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, donkey), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 companions	nmod:poss
2	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 told	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 put	mark
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mattress	det
14	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stable	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stable	det
17	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	donkey's companions					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	donkey		donkey's wife		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	put not said to happen	to-infinitive		a mattress		the stable		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mattress=Theme in stable=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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