The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 109
To the second son, whose wisdom and prudence made amends for his being rather dull, she gave the government of the earth.
Who acts: wisdom, amends, Fairy · What happens: make, be, give · To what, where: amends, government
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom, amends, Fairy), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 son | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prudence | cc |
| 9 | prudence | prudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wisdom | conj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 dull | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dull | nmod:poss |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 dull | cop |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 dull | advmod |
| 16 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 government | det |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 government | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | wisdom and prudence | amends | to the second son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | amends not said here | dull property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Fairy | the government of the earth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=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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