The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 47

He ordered the spirits of the air to fly through all space, and to bring back Rosalie wherever she might be.

Who acts: word · What happens: order, fly, bring back · To what, where: spirits, space, Rosalie

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spirits	det
4	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spirits	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 space	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 space	det
12	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bring	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bring	mark
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod
18	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obj
19	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	22 be	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 be	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bring	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	order	past	word	the spirits of the air			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme
2	fly	to-infinitive	word not said here			all space	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through space=Location
3	bring back	to-infinitive	word not said here		Rosalie		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rosalie=Destination

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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