The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 87
Soon the time came round when the king of the beasts would expect the youths and maidens to be brought to him.
Who acts: time, king · What happens: come round, expect, bring · To what, where: youths, king
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 (time, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 expect | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beasts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beasts | det |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 expect | aux |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youths | det |
| 15 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 expect | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 maidens | cc |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 youths | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 brought | aux:pass |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 expect | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past | the time | round, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expect | would | the king of the beasts | the youths and maidens | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the king of the beasts not said here | king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination |
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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