The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 20
When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a threatening voice, ordered her to undress herself.
What happens: leave, order, undress · To what, where: maidens, bridal chamber, lindorm, threatening voice
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 8 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chamber | amod |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lindorm | det |
| 11 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chamber | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | threatening | threatening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voice | compound |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ordered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ordered | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 undress | mark |
| 21 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 undress | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | maidens = maiden | the bridal chamber | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in chamber=Location | |||
| 2 | order | past | lindorm | a threatening voice | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | undress not said to happen | to-infinitive | lindorm | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
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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