The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 56
I will summon all the eagles of the air together, and order them to catch the mare and bring her to you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: summon, order, catch, bring · To what, where: eagles, mare, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 summon | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 summon | aux |
| 3 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 eagles | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagles | det |
| 6 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summon | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eagles | nmod |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 summon | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 order | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 order | cc |
| 13 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 summon | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 order | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 order | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mare | det |
| 18 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 catch | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summon | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 summon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | future | I | all eagles of the air | together property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient | |||
| 2 | order | infinitive | I not said here | Eagles = eagle | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the mare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | mare | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=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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