The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 12
As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening.
Who acts: day, KING · What happens: be, command, pitch, await · To what, where: servants, tents, open field, cool · 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 (day, KING), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 hot | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 commanded | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sultry | cc |
| 8 | sultry | sultry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hot | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 commanded | nsubj |
| 10 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 commanded | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pitch | mark |
| 14 | pitch | pitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 commanded | advcl |
| 15 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pitch | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 field | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 field | det |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 field | amod |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pitch | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 await | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 await | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 await | advmod |
| 23 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 10 commanded | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cool | det |
| 25 | cool | cool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 await | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 evening | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 evening | det |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cool | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the day | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the day not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | command | past | KING | KING's servants | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pitch | to-infinitive | KING not said here | tents | the open field | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme in field=Destination | |||
| 5 | await | present | KING not said here | the cool of the evening | there | tree rules |
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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