The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 59

He ordered some nets to be prepared and painted of the same colours as the bird’s plumage, thinking that we are all easily caught by what is like ourselves.

Who acts: bird · What happens: order, prepare, paint, think, catch, be · To what, where: nets, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 nets	det
4	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 prepared	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 prepared	aux:pass
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ordered	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 painted	cc
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 prepared	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 colours	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colours	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colours	amod
13	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 painted	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 plumage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plumage	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 bird	case
18	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 painted	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 caught	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 caught	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 caught	aux:pass
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 easily	advmod
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 caught	advmod
26	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thinking	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 what	case
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 caught	obl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ourselves	cop
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 ourselves	case
31	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	bird	some nets		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
2	prepare	to-infinitive · passive	bird not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»
3	paint	participle	bird not said here		of the same colours; as the bird's plumage	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund	bird not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	catch	present · passive		we	easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is	present			like ourselves	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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