The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 16

He turned once more to the two brothers and said, ‘His diabolical magic has helped him again, but now what third task shall we set him to do?

Who acts: King, diabolical magic, third task · What happens: turn, say, ‘, help, set, do · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

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, diabolical magic, third task), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 turned	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 brothers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brothers	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
13	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 magic	nmod:poss
14	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 magic	amod
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	aux
17	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ‘	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 helped	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 helped	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 what	advmod
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 set	obj
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 task	amod
25	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 set	aux
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	xcomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	King				to the two brothers result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	King not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	‘	past	King not said here					tree rules
4	help	present · perfect	King's diabolical magic		King	again		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	set	shall	third task	King				tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	third task not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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