The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 210

Here the lad stopped, and ordered every slave that wore two cloths to cast one away and tuck up the other between his legs.

Who acts: lad, slave · What happens: stop, order, wear, cast away, tuck up · To what, where: slave, two cloths, one, other

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 (lad, slave), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ordered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ordered	cc
7	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	advcl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 slave	det
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ordered	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wore	nsubj
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slave	acl:relcl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 cloths	nummod
13	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wore	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cast	mark
15	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wore	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cast	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 cast	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tuck	cc
19	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cast	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 tuck	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tuck	obj
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 legs	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 legs	nmod:poss
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 other	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the lad		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	order	past	the lad not said here	every slave			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3	wear	past	every slave	two cloths			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Source
4	cast away	to-infinitive	every slave not said here	one		away property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product
5	tuck up	infinitive	every slave not said here	the other			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme

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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