The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 16
At last, when all was ready, the King commanded the cloak to be brought to him, and he spread it out before the Princess, and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be your wedding-day.’
Who acts: all, King, Tomorrow · What happens: be, command, bring, spread out, say · To what, where: last, cloak, King, wedding day · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, King, Tomorrow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ready | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ready | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | nsubj |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloak | det |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 brought | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | aux:pass |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cloak | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spread | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spread | nsubj |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 commanded | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spread | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 spread | compound:prt |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 Princess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 commanded | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 day | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 day | punct |
| 33 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 day | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 day | cop |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 day | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 wedding | punct |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | last | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | past | the King | the cloak | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent cloak=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the King not said here | the cloak not said here | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | spread out | past | King | cloak | before the Princess | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before princess=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | shall | Tomorrow | your wedding day | 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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