The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 64
Then the King said, ‘What a powerful fellow that is, carrying that bale of linen as large as a house on his shoulder!’ and he was much frightened, and thought ‘What a lot of gold he will make away with!’
Who acts: King, powerful fellow, lot · What happens: say, carry, frighten, think, make away · To what, where: bale, shoulder, King · 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, powerful fellow, lot), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 What | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 carrying | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carrying | aux |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 bale | det |
| 16 | bale | bale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 linen | case |
| 18 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bale | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 large | advmod |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 linen | amod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 large | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 shoulder | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 frightened | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 frightened | aux:pass |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 frightened | advmod |
| 33 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 What | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 make | punct |
| 38 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 40 lot | det |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 lot | det |
| 40 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 make | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 gold | case |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lot | nmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 make | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 make | aux |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thought | ccomp |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 make | advmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 away | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 make | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · progressive | a powerful fellow | that bale of linen | King's shoulder | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bale=Theme | |||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the King not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make away | future | what lot of gold | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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