The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 41
The King of the Gold Mines, indignant at being kept from his happiness by this wicked old woman, went up to her, and threatening her with his sword, said:
Who acts: wicked old woman, King · What happens: keep, go up, threaten, say · To what, where: happiness, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked old woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mines | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mines | det |
| 5 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | compound |
| 6 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 indignant | punct |
| 8 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 King | amod |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 11 kept | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kept | aux:pass |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 indignant | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 happiness | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 woman | nsubj |
| 17 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 threatening | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 threatening | cc |
| 27 | threatening | threaten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 threatening | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sword | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threatening | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | parataxis |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund · passive | wicked old woman | King's happiness | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from happiness=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | the King of the Gold Mines | woman | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | threaten | gerund | the King of the Gold Mines not said here | woman | with King's sword | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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