The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 53
Then Jack my Hedgehog set off for the first kingdom, and there the King had given strict orders that if anyone should be seen riding a cock and carrying a bagpipe he was to be chased away and shot at, and on no account to be allowed to enter the palace.
Who acts: you, Hedgehog, King, strict orders · What happens: jack, set off, give, see, ride, carry · To what, where: account, strict orders, cock, bagpipe, palace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hedgehog, King, strict orders), 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 | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | jack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Jack | ccomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 given | expl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Jack | advcl |
| 18 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 orders | amod |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 seen | mark |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 orders | acl:relcl |
| 26 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 seen | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cock | det |
| 28 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 riding | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carrying | cc |
| 30 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 riding | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bagpipe | det |
| 32 | bagpipe | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 chased | aux:pass |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 chased | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 chased | aux:pass |
| 37 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 carrying | ccomp |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 chased | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shot | cc |
| 40 | shot | shot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 chased | conj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 shot | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 account | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 account | cc |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 account | case |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 account | det |
| 46 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 allowed | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 allowed | aux:pass |
| 49 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 account | acl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 enter | mark |
| 51 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 allowed | xcomp |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 palace | det |
| 53 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 enter | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jack | imperative | you not said here | no account | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set off | past | my Hedgehog | for the first kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | the King | strict orders | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | should · passive | strict orders | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | strict orders not said here | a cock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | strict orders not said here | a bagpipe | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | chase away | past · passive | cock | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | shot | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | allow | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=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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