The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 24
Although the stranger’s name and rank were unknown to Rosalie’s father, he was really the son of the King of the Golden Isle, which had for capital a city that extended from one sea to another.
Who acts: name, foot, son, city, stranger · What happens: be, have, extend, name · To what, where: son, city, another, one sea
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, foot, son, city), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 9 unknown | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 stranger | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unknown | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rank | cc |
| 7 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unknown | cop |
| 9 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 11 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Rosalie | case |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unknown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unknown | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 son | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 son | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 son | det |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Isle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Isle | det |
| 25 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Isle | amod |
| 26 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 capital | case |
| 31 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 extended | nsubj |
| 35 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 city | acl:relcl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 sea | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 sea | nummod |
| 38 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 extended | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 another | case |
| 40 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 extended | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stranger's name and rank | to Rosalie's father; unknown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | foot | the son | of the King of the Golden Isle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | the son | a city | for capital | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 4 | extend | past | a city | another | one sea | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient | |||
| 5 | name | the stranger | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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