The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 88

The King therefore issued a proclamation inviting twelve youths and twelve maidens to offer themselves up to save their country; and immediately many young people, far more than enough, hastened to do so.

Who acts: King, proclamation · What happens: issue, invite, offer up, save, hasten, do · To what, where: proclamation, twelve youths, beasts, country

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, proclamation), 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	4 issued	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 issued	advmod
4	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 proclamation	det
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 issued	obj
7	inviting	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 proclamation	acl
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 youths	nummod
9	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 inviting	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 maidens	cc
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 maidens	nummod
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 youths	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 offer	mark
14	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 inviting	advcl
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 offer	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 offer	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 save	mark
18	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 offer	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 country	nmod:poss
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 save	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 people	cc
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 issued	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 more	punct
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 people	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 enough	case
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 more	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hastened	punct
33	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 more	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hastened	xcomp
36	so	so	ADV	_	35 do	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 issued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	issue	past	the King	a proclamation	therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme
2	invite	gerund	a proclamation not said here	twelve youths and twelve maidens		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient
3	offer up	to-infinitive	a proclamation not said here	beasts = beast		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	save	to-infinitive	a proclamation not said here	beasts's country		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
5	hasten	participle	the King not said here			tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	the King not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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