The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 79

The Lake answered that it had been done by people who had come to do him homage.

Who acts: Lake, people · What happens: answer, do, come · To what, where: lion, SERPENT · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lake, people), 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 Lake	det
2	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 done	obl:agent
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 people	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Lake		tree rules
2	do	past · perfect · passive	people	lion	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
3	come	past · perfect	people		tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	SERPENT	tree rules

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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