The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 63
The youth went to the King and asked for all the things that Dapplegrim had named, and once more, as the King thought that it would be disgraceful to refuse them to him, he obtained them all.
Who acts: youth, King, it, Dapplegrim · What happens: go, ask, name, think, be, refuse · To what, where: Dapplegrim, barrels, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, King, it, Dapplegrim), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 named | obj |
| 14 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 named | aux |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 more | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 more | cc |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 disgraceful | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 disgraceful | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 disgraceful | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 disgraceful | cop |
| 30 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 refuse | mark |
| 32 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 disgraceful | xcomp |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 refuse | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 refuse | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 obtained | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 obtained | nsubj |
| 38 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 obtained | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the youth | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the youth not said here | for all things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | past · perfect · passive | Dapplegrim | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme that=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | it | disgraceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | refuse | to-infinitive | barrels = barrel | King | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | obtain | past | Dapplegrim | barrels = barrel | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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