The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 59
The next morning, as soon as he woke, he sent for his head cook, and told him to send up the same dishes as before.
Who acts: two · What happens: wake, send, tell, send up · To what, where: two, same dishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (two), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sent | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 woke | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cook | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cook | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cook | compound |
| 16 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 send | mark |
| 22 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 told | xcomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 send | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dishes | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dishes | amod |
| 26 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 send | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 before | advmod |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 send | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | two | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | send | past | two | morning | for two's head cook; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | two not said here | two | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | send up not said to happen | to-infinitive | two not said here | the same dishes | before property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/59/