The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 117
The next day the Magician again commanded Prince Milan to be led before him.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: command, lead · To what, where: Prince Milan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Magician | det |
| 5 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | nsubj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 commanded | advmod |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Milan | compound |
| 9 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 led | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 led | aux:pass |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 commanded | advcl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 led | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the Magician | Prince Milan | again; day | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milan=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive · passive | the Magician not said here | before magician | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination |
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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