English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 89

But the merchant ordered him to come in.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: order, come in · To what, where: King

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 ordered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ordered	xcomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the merchant		King				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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