The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 50

He ordered her to roast some veal, and to boil a pair of chickens, and gave her some herbs to make a good savoury, and told her to bake the best tart she could make.

Who acts: Simon, Nina · What happens: order, roast, boil, give, make, tell · To what, where: Nina, veal, pair, herbs, good savoury, best tart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Simon, Nina), 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 roast	mark
5	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 veal	det
7	veal	veal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roast	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boil	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 boil	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 boil	mark
11	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 roast	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pair	det
13	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boil	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 chickens	case
15	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pair	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boil	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 herbs	det
21	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gave	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gave	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 savoury	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 savoury	amod
26	savoury	savoury	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 bake	mark
32	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tart	det
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 tart	amod
35	tart	tart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bake	obj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tart	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	order	past	Simon		Nina	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	roast not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	some veal		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent veal=Patient
3	boil	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	a pair of chickens		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
4	give	past	Simon not said here	some herbs	Nina	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient herb=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	a good savoury		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset savoury=Product
6	tell speech: assert	past	Simon not said here		Nina	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	bake not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	the best tart		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product
8	make	could	Nina	the best tart not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=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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