The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 28

Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add to the list of his prisoners.

Who acts: captive · What happens: be, create, add, list · To what, where: chief delight, storm, prisoners

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captive), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 delight	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 delight	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 delight	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 delight	nmod:poss
6	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 delight	amod
7	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 create	mark
9	create	create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 delight	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 create	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 add	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 add	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 add	mark
16	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 create	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 list	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 list	det
19	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 add	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prisoners	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prisoners	nmod:poss
22	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 list	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 delight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	captive	Prince's chief delight	indeed property	tree rules
2	create	to-infinitive		a storm		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Result
3	add speech: assert	to-infinitive			to the list of Prince's prisoners	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to list=Co-Patient
4	list			Prince's prisoners		nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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