The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 43
They consulted together how they could destroy both him and his companions.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: consult, destroy · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consulted | nsubj |
| 2 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 consulted | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 destroy | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 destroy | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 destroy | aux |
| 7 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 consulted | advcl |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 9 him | cc:preconj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 destroy | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 companions | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 him | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | hunter | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | destroy | could | hunter | King | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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