The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 112
On the evening of the second day he went, as he had been told, to receive his orders for the following morning.
Who acts: door · What happens: go, tell, receive, follow, order · To what, where: door, orders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 receive | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 receive | mark |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 orders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 receive | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 morning | amod |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | door | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | door's orders | morning | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | order | door | nom order «communication 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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