The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 121

The head cook took Jem to his own room, but had hardly had time to question him before he was ordered to go at once to the grand duke.

Who acts: head cook, cook · What happens: take, have, question, order, go · To what, where: Jem, own room, cook

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (head cook, cook), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	compound
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 took	parataxis
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 question	mark
17	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 question	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 ordered	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ordered	aux:pass
22	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 question	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ordered	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 go	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 duke	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duke	det
29	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 duke	amod
30	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the head cook	Jem		cook's own room			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jem=Theme to room=Destination
2	have	past · perfect					time	hardly property	tree rules
3	question speech: other	to-infinitive			cook				vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	order	past · passive		cook					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	cook not said here					to the grand duke	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial_Location

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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