The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 61
The King was pleased with this proposal, and commanded Ferko to set to work on the following day.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, command, set, work, follow · To what, where: Ferko · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 proposal | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 proposal | det |
| 7 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 commanded | cc |
| 10 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 11 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 commanded | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 commanded | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | with this proposal; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the King not said here | Ferko | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ferko=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | the King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | the King not said here | day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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