The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 111

The youngest, who was the slave of his passions and of a very uncertain temper, became Prince of the Air.

Who acts: youngest slave · What happens: be, become · To what, where: youngest slave

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 (youngest slave), 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	7 slave	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 slave	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slave	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 slave	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slave	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slave	det
7	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 passions	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 passions	nmod:poss
10	passions	passion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slave	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 temper	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 temper	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 temper	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 uncertain	advmod
15	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 temper	amod
16	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passions	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slave	punct
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Air	det
22	Air	Air	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Prince	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youngest slave				of slave's passions and a uncertain temper	tree rules
2	become	past	the youngest slave						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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