The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 76
Be of good cheer, and lead the King to the hill just outside the city walls.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: King, hill
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 (you), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cheer | cop |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cheer | case |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cheer | amod |
| 4 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lead | cc |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 walls | advmod |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walls | compound |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lead | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | of good cheer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | imperative | you not said here | the King | the hill | outside the city walls | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to hill=Destination |
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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