The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 48
The King said to them, ‘Go in and enjoy yourselves,’ and as soon as they were inside he had the doors shut and bolted.
Who acts: King, hunter · What happens: say, go in, enjoy, be, bolt · To what, where: hunter, yourselves · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 8 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 Go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enjoy | cc |
| 11 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Go | conj |
| 12 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 enjoy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soon | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 said | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | cop |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soon | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 doors | det |
| 25 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 doors | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bolted | cc |
| 28 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 shut | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | hunter | soon property | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | enjoy | infinitive | yourselves | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourselves=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | hunter | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bolt | participle | hunter not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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