The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 39
He drove them all before him on to the hill, where the King and his whole Court and Ferko’s two brothers were standing.
Who acts: Ferko, two brothers · What happens: drive, stand · To what, where: 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 (Ferko, two brothers), 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 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 him | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 standing | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 standing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Court | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Court | nmod:poss |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Court | amod |
| 18 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 King | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Ferko | cc |
| 20 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | conj |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brothers | nummod |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 standing | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 standing | aux |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hill | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Ferko | wolves = wolf | the hill | before youth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before he=Destination on hill=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the King and Ferko's whole Court and Ferko's two brothers | vn assuming_position-50 «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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