The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 7

As soon as the King’s son saw the old Abbess spinning he threw himself at her feet and entreated her to tell him how he could kill the Seven-headed Serpent.

Who acts: son · What happens: see, spin, throw, entreat, tell, kill · To what, where: old Abbess, son, feet, Abbess, headed Serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Abbess	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Abbess	amod
11	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 threw	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 threw	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 threw	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 entreated	cc
20	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 entreated	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 entreated	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 kill	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Serpent	det
30	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 headed	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Seven	punct
32	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Serpent	amod
33	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King's son	the old Abbess			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer abbess=Stimulus
2	spin	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	past		son		Abbess's feet		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
4	entreat	past	the King's son not said here	Abbess				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the King's son not said here		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	kill	could	son	the headed Serpent				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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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