The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 67

She ordered Fairer-than-a-Fairy to start next day at dawn to ask Locrinos for fire with which to relight the one she had allowed to go out.

Who acts: Lagree, one · What happens: order, start, ask, relight, allow, go out · To what, where: Fairer, Locrinos, one, Lagree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Lagree, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Fairer	punct
5	than	than	ADP	_	9 Fairy	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Fairy	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 start	mark
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	advcl
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 start	conj
18	Locrinos	Locrinos	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 fire	case
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 relight	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 relight	mark
24	relight	relight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 ask	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 relight	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 allowed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 allowed	aux
29	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 one	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 allowed	xcomp
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Lagree		Fairer		than a Fairy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme
2	start	to-infinitive	Lagree not said here			dawn; day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Lagree not said here		Locrinos		for fire	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent locrinos=Recipient
4	relight	to-infinitive		the one				tree rules
5	allow	past · perfect · passive	the one not said here	Lagree				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lagree not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «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 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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