The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 24
He dragged her out, and in his fury called his guards, and ordered them to put her to death as fast as possible.
Who acts: prince · What happens: drag out, call, order, put, infuriate · To what, where: witch, guards, fury · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 dragged | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fury | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fury | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guards | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 put | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 possible | mark |
| 25 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fast | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag out | past | prince | witch | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | prince not said here | prince's guards | prince's fury | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient | |||
| 3 | order | past | guards = guard | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch | to death; fast property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | ||||
| 5 | infuriate | prince | nom fury «feeling transitive»: 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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