The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 13
The King could not hide his amazement, but at the same time his wrath increased, and he was more ready than ever to believe the two brothers, who kept on repeating that Ferko was nothing more nor less than a wicked magician.
Who acts: King, wrath, two brothers, Ferko · What happens: not hide, increase, be, believe, keep, repeat · To what, where: amazement, two brothers, nothing
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 (King, wrath, two brothers, Ferko), 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 | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 7 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 increased | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 increased | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 increased | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 increased | nsubj |
| 16 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ready | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | cop |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 ready | advmod |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 increased | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 ready | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 believe | mark |
| 26 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 brothers | det |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 brothers | nummod |
| 29 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 believe | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kept | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 34 repeating | mark |
| 34 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 kept | xcomp |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 nothing | mark |
| 36 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 nothing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 nothing | cop |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 repeating | obj |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 nothing | amod |
| 40 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 less | cc |
| 41 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 more | conj |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 45 magician | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 magician | det |
| 44 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 magician | amod |
| 45 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 more | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hide | could | the King | King's amazement | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazement=Patient | ||||
| 2 | increase | past | King's wrath | time | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wrath | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | the two brothers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | the two brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | repeat | gerund | the two brothers not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | Ferko | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | amaze | King | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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