The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 57

They went to the King and told him that Ferko was a wicked magician, who had come to the palace with the intention of carrying off the Princess.

Who acts: brothers, Ferko, wicked magician, intention · What happens: go, tell, be, come, carry off · To what, where: King, wicked magician, palace, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Ferko, wicked magician, intention), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 King	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 magician	mark
10	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 magician	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 magician	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 magician	det
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 magician	amod
14	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 magician	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 intention	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 intention	det
24	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palace	nmod
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 carrying	mark
26	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 intention	acl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 carrying	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carrying	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	brothers = brother				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	brothers = brother not said here		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past	Ferko	a wicked magician				tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	a wicked magician			the palace with the intention		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
5	carry off	gerund	the intention not said here	the Princess				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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