The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 107
Then the sultan ordered his guards to bind him, and left him there till the following day.
Who acts: sultan, guards · What happens: order, bind, leave, follow · To what, where: guards, sultan
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, guards), 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 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guards | nmod:poss |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bind | mark |
| 8 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bind | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 left | advmod |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the sultan | sultan's guards | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bind not said to happen | to-infinitive | sultan's guards not said here | sultan | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the sultan not said here | sultan | there | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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