The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 95

The father embraced his fortunate son, and commanded the rest of the linen to be thrown into the water; then, turning to his children he said, ‘Now, dear Princes, prepare yourselves for the second task.

Who acts: father · What happens: embrace, command, throw, turn, say, prepare · To what, where: fortunate son, rest, water, dear Princes, children, yourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embraced	nsubj
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embraced	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 commanded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 commanded	cc
9	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embraced	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commanded	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 linen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 linen	det
14	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 thrown	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thrown	aux:pass
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 commanded	advcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrown	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 turning	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 turning	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turning	punct
24	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 embraced	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 children	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 turning	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 children	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Princes	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Princes	punct
32	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 Princes	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Now	punct
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Princes	amod
35	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 turning	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 prepare	punct
37	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turning	conj
38	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 prepare	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 task	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 task	det
41	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 task	amod
42	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 prepare	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	the father	father's fortunate son			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
2	command	past	the father not said here	the rest of the linen			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality
3	throw	to-infinitive · passive	the father not said here			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into water=Result
4	turn	gerund	the father not said here	dear Princes	then	to father's children result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to child=Result
5	say speech: assert	past	father	father's children not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic
6	prepare	infinitive	the father not said here	yourselves		for the second task	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent yourselves=Product for task=Beneficiary

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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