The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 58
Then the emperor ordered Fet-Fruners to ride without delay to the river Jordan, and to bring back, at whatever cost, the holy water for Iliane.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: order, ride, bring back · To what, where: Fet, river Jordan, whatever
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Fet | Fet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fruners | punct |
| 7 | Fruners | Fruners | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fet | flat |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 delay | case |
| 11 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Jordan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jordan | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Jordan | compound |
| 15 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whatever | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 whatever | case |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bring | obj |
| 24 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whatever | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 27 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 water | amod |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | appos |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Iliane | case |
| 30 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 water | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the emperor | Fet | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fet=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | the river Jordan | without delay | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to jordan=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bring back | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | whatever | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whatever=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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