The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 48
Then he commanded the cook to be brought before him.
Who acts: King · What happens: command, bring · To what, where: cook · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | King | the cook | then | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent cook=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | before King | vn bring-11.3-1 «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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