The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 8
Then Ferko went joyfully to the King and told him that all he demanded had been done.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: go, tell, demand, do · To what, where: Ferko, all · 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 (Ferko), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 done | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 demanded | nsubj |
| 14 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 told | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ferko | then | to the King; joyfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Ferko not said here | Ferko | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | Ferko | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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