The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 46
Then the King raised his voice again and called out, ‘Stop! you shall have my whole kingdom, if you will only drive these wolves back to the places they came from.’
Who acts: King, you, wolves · What happens: raise, call out, stop, have, drive back, come · To what, where: voice, whole kingdom, wolves, places
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, you, wolves), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 raised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 raised | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stop | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stop | punct |
| 13 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 raised | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Stop | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kingdom | amod |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drive | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 drive | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 drive | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 drive | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 drive | advmod |
| 26 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | parataxis |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 wolves | det |
| 28 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 drive | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 drive | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 places | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 places | det |
| 32 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 drive | obl |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 places | acl:relcl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stop | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the King | King's voice | then; again | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the King not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | have | shall | you | my whole kingdom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | drive back a condition, not said to happen | future | you | this wolves | the places | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme to place=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | come | past | wolves = wolf | the places not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=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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