The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 23
Enraged by the delay, he sent his servants to fetch him, for the appointed time was past.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: enrage, send, fetch, appoint, be · To what, where: servants, Magician
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. 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 | Enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sent | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 delay | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 delay | det |
| 4 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Enraged | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Enraged | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 servants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fetch | mark |
| 11 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fetch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fetch | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 past | cop |
| 19 | past | past | ADV | _ | 17 time | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | participle | Magician not said here | by the delay | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Magician | Magician's servants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | Magician | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | past property | 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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