The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 44
The King in his terror called out, ‘Stop a moment; I will give you half my kingdom if you will drive all the wolves away.’
Who acts: King, I, you · What happens: call out, stop, give, drive · To what, where: terror, kingdom, you, wolves
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, I, you), 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 | 10 Stop | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 terror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 terror | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 10 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stop | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Stop | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 20 kingdom | det:predet |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 drive | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 drive | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drive | aux |
| 24 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 wolves | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wolves | det |
| 27 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drive | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 drive | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | King's terror not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | the King in King's terror | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | my kingdom | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kingdom=Theme | |||
| 4 | drive a condition, not said to happen | future | you | all wolves | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
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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