The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 74
The King will then glide over something soft, which he likes very much, and he will be so pleased with that that he will not devour you.
Who acts: King · What happens: glide, like, be, not devour · To what, where: something, you
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 glide | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glide | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 glide | advmod |
| 5 | glide | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 glide | obl |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 likes | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 likes | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 likes | nsubj |
| 12 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 likes | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleased | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glide | conj |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 devour | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 devour | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 devour | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 devour | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 devour | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 devour | advmod |
| 28 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleased | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 devour | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | future | the King | something | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over something=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | like | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | is | future | king | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not devour | future | king | you | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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