The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 144
He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: order, make, embroider · To what, where: tailor, mantle, soldier, blue velvet, golden coach
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tailor | det |
| 4 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mantle | det |
| 9 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vest | cc |
| 11 | vest | vest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mantle | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 velvet | case |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 velvet | amod |
| 14 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vest | nmod |
| 15 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 velvet | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pearls | case |
| 17 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 embroidered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coachbuilder | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 coachbuilder | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coachbuilder | det |
| 21 | coachbuilder | coachbuilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 coachbuilder | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coach | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coach | amod |
| 27 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 coach | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coach | det |
| 30 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coach | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Ludovine | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Ludovine | det |
| 33 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Ludovine | compound |
| 34 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 coach | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | soldier | the tailor | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | a mantle and vest of blue velvet | soldier | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary mantle=Product | |||
| 3 | embroider | participle | blue velvet not said here | with pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | a golden coach | soldier | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary coach=Product |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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