The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 11
You will find the King asleep upon his bed, which is all hung round with bells, and over his bed you will see a sword hanging.
Who acts: You, sword · What happens: find, hang round, see, hang · To what, where: King, bed, sword
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sword), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hung | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hung | aux:pass |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 hung | advmod |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bed | acl:relcl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 hung | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 bells | case |
| 17 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sword | det |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 see | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | the King | upon King's bed; asleep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||
| 2 | hang round | present · passive | King's bed | with bells; all, round property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with bell=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | a sword | King's bed | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hang | gerund | a sword not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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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