The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 89

He gave the royal signal, and in a minute or two a stream of ants came pouring into the barn, who under the king’s orders set to work to separate the grain into the proper heaps.

Who acts: personage, stream, barn, king · What happens: give, come, pour, set, work, separate · To what, where: royal signal, barn, grain, proper heaps

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (personage, stream, barn, king), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 signal	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signal	amod
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 minute	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minute	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ants	case
16	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stream	nmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
18	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 came	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 barn	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barn	det
21	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pouring	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 set	nsubj
24	under	under	ADP	_	28 orders	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 orders	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 set	nsubj
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 barn	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 work	mark
31	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 set	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 separate	mark
33	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 work	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grain	det
35	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 separate	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	39 heaps	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 heaps	det
38	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 heaps	amod
39	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 separate	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	personage	the royal signal				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
2	come	past	a stream of ants			minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pour	gerund	a stream of ants not said here		the barn			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into barn=Location
4	set	present	the barn					tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	the barn not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	separate	to-infinitive	the barn not said here	the grain			into the proper heaps goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent grain=Theme into heap=Goal
7	order		the king					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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