The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 85
Then he desired one of his beasts to show the men the way out of the garden, and dismissed them.
Who acts: king · What happens: desire, show, dismiss · To what, where: one, way, men
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 desired | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 desired | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beasts | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desired | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 show | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 way | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dismissed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dismissed | cc |
| 20 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dismissed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | king | one of king's beasts | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | king not said here | the way | the men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 3 | dismiss | past | king not said here | men = man | vn banish-10.2 «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 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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