The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 63
When it was finished, he made the strong man who had uprooted the trees take the sack on his shoulder and go with him to the King.
Who acts: King, strong man · What happens: finish, make, uproot, take, go · To what, where: sack, trees, shoulder
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, strong man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 uprooted | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 uprooted | aux |
| 13 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 uprooted | obj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sack | det |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shoulder | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | sack | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | past | King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | uproot | past · perfect | the strong man | the trees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present | the strong man | the sack | King's shoulder | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the strong man not said here | with King; to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location |
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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