The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 49
Then he made the cook come, and ordered him to keep up a large fire under the room until the iron was red-hot.
Who acts: King, iron · What happens: make, come, order, keep up, be · To what, where: cook, King, large fire, room
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, iron), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ordered | cc |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 keep | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fire | amod |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 hot | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 iron | det |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hot | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hot | cop |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hot | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 red | punct |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | King | the cook | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Product | |||
| 2 | come | present | King not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | past | King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep up not said to happen | to-infinitive | a large fire | the room | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the iron | hot property | 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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