The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 70
Our king, who has seven heads, is now asleep, but in a few minutes he will wake up and come to me to take his bath!
Who acts: king · What happens: have, be, wake up, come, take · To what, where: seven heads, me, bath
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 king | nmod:poss |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asleep | cop |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 asleep | advmod |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wake | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 wake | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 minutes | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 minutes | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 minutes | amod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wake | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wake | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wake | aux |
| 20 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asleep | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 wake | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wake | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bath | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Our king | seven heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Our king | now | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wake up | future | king | minute | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | king not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's bath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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