The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 13

Then he pointed out where the border of his land lay, and bade the boy begin his work at once.

Who acts: man, border, bade · What happens: point out, lie, begin, work · To what, where: work

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, border, bade), 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	3 pointed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pointed	nsubj
3	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 pointed	compound:prt
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lay	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 border	det
7	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 land	nmod:poss
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 border	nmod
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pointed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begin	cc
14	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	nsubj
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lay	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 work	nmod:poss
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 begin	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	point out	past	man		then	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the border of border's land			tree rules
3	begin	infinitive	bade	border's work		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	work		border			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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