The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 16

He bade his sons fetch a lawyer, so that he might make his will, and when the man arrived he explained his wishes.

Who acts: father, sons, man · What happens: bade, fetch, make, arrive, explain, wish · To what, where: lawyer, wishes

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sons, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sons	nmod:poss
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fetch	nsubj
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lawyer	det
7	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 make	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 will	nmod:poss
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 explained	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 explained	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 arrived	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arrived	nsubj
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 explained	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 explained	nsubj
23	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wishes	nmod:poss
25	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 explained	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bade	past	father		tree rules
2	fetch	present	father's sons	a lawyer	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawyer=Theme
3	make	might	father		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	arrive	past	the man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	explain speech: assert	past	father	father's wishes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Topic
6	wish		father		nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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