The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 23

So he called together all the shipbuilders in the land, and gave them orders to begin the ship without delay.

Who acts: brother · What happens: call together, give, begin · To what, where: shipbuilders, orders, lands, ship

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 shipbuilders	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shipbuilders	det
7	shipbuilders	shipbuilder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shipbuilders	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gave	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obj
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 delay	case
21	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call together speech: assert	participle	brother	all shipbuilders in the land		together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	brother not said here	orders	lands = land		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient order=Theme
3	begin	to-infinitive	brother not said here	the ship		without delay	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality

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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