The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 51
And he ordered long ladders to be brought and the maiden to be rescued.
Who acts: Shall · What happens: order, bring, rescue · To what, where: long ladders
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shall), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ordered | cc |
| 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 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladders | amod |
| 5 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 maiden | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rescued | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rescued | aux:pass |
| 14 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 maiden | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Shall | long ladders | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ladder=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Shall not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | |||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive · passive | Shall not said here | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP» |
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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