The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 26
Again he ordered her to undress, and again she commanded him to do so first.
Who acts: sun, lindorm · What happens: order, undress, command, do · To what, where: lindorm, sun · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (sun, lindorm), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 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 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 undress | mark |
| 6 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 commanded | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 commanded | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 commanded | nsubj |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 commanded | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commanded | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 first | advmod |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | sun | lindorm | again | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | undress not said to happen | to-infinitive | sun not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | command | past | lindorm | sun | again | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | lindorm not said here | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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