The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 49
When he was comfortably seated, he turned to his soldiers, and bade them wake the stranger gently.
Who acts: King · What happens: seat, turn, wake · To what, where: King, soldiers, bade
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 seated | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 5 seated | advmod |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 soldiers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wake | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wake | obl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | obj |
| 16 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stranger | det |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wake | obj |
| 19 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 16 wake | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | King | comfortably property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | King | King's soldiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to soldier=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wake | present | bade | gently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient |
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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