The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 18
The eldest answered quickly, ‘Let him drive all the wolves of the kingdom on to this hill before to-morrow night.
Who acts: eldest, you, King · What happens: answer, let, drive on · To what, where: King, wolves, hill
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 (eldest, you, King), 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 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Let | advcl |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Let | obj |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 wolves | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolves | det |
| 12 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drive | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wolves | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 drive | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 hill | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hill | det |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 drive | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 night | compound |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 before | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle | the eldest | quickly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive on | infinitive | King not said here | all wolves of the kingdom | this hill | before property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme to hill=Trajectory |
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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