The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 138

And he called his wife to see what her son had done, and ordered his soldiers to take the boy and bring him to his father.

Who acts: boy, son, soldiers · What happens: call, see, do, order, take, bring · To what, where: wife, soldiers, boy, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, son, soldiers), 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	_	3 called	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 done	obj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 see	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ordered	cc
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 soldiers	nmod:poss
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ordered	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bring	cc
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	boy		boy's wife	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
2	see	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · perfect	wife's son			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	order	past	boy not said here	boy's soldiers		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy's soldiers not said here		the boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
6	bring	infinitive	boy's soldiers not said here	boy	boy's father	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to father=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 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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