The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 27
The King of this beautiful island had one son, for whom a life of adventure had been foretold at his birth.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, foretell · To what, where: one son, life, birth
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 (King), 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 | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 island | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 son | nummod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 adventure | case |
| 16 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 foretold | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 foretold | aux:pass |
| 19 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 birth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 birth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foretold | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | one son | of this beautiful island | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | a life of adventure | King's birth | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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