The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 47
And he likewise ordered milk to be brought, and rice, that it might eat and drink and be refreshed.
Who acts: sultan, milk · What happens: order, bring, eat, drink, refresh · To what, where: milk
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, milk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 milk | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rice | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rice | cc |
| 11 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 eat | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 refreshed | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 21 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eat | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | sultan | milk | rice obl; likewise property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | sultan not said here | milk not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | ||||
| 3 | eat | might | milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | milk not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | refresh | infinitive · passive | milk not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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