The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 110

The third was wild and savage, and of monstrous stature; and the Fairy, his mother, who was ashamed of his defects, hoped to hide them by creating him King of the Seas.

Who acts: third, mother, Fairy · What happens: be, hope, hide, create · To what, where: defects, fire

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 (third, mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	cop
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 savage	cc
6	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wild	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stature	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stature	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stature	case
10	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stature	amod
11	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hoped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hoped	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 hoped	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Fairy	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ashamed	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ashamed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ashamed	cop
22	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 defects	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 defects	nmod:poss
25	defects	defect	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ashamed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Fairy	punct
27	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hide	mark
29	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hoped	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hide	obj
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 creating	mark
32	creating	create	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hide	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 creating	obj
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 creating	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Seas	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Seas	det
37	Seas	Sea	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 King	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the third		wild property	tree rules
2	be		the third not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	fire's mother		of fire's defects; ashamed property	tree rules
4	hope	past	the Fairy			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here	defects = defect		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	create	gerund	the Fairy not said here	fire		tree rules

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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