The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 46
He said to them, ‘You must now make merry together, and eat and drink,’ and he led them into a room which had a floor of iron; the doors were also of iron, and the windows were barred with iron.
Who acts: King, You, room, doors · What happens: say, make, eat, drink, lead, have · To what, where: hunter, room, floor, windows · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, You, room, doors), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 make | advmod |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 12 together | advmod |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drink | cc |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 led | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 room | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 floor | det |
| 30 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 iron | case |
| 32 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 floor | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 iron | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 doors | det |
| 35 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 iron | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 iron | cop |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 iron | advmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 iron | case |
| 39 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 barred | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 barred | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 windows | det |
| 43 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 barred | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 barred | aux:pass |
| 45 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 iron | conj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 iron | case |
| 47 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 barred | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | hunter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | must | You | now | together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lead | past | King | hunter | a room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 6 | have | past | a room | a floor of iron | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the doors | of iron | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bar | past · passive | the windows | with iron | vn forbid-64.4-1 «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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