The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 73
Now, when the King saw how a single man was carrying away the wealth of the whole country he was very angry, and made his cavalry mount and pursue the Six, and bring back the strong man with the sack.
Who acts: King, single man, man · What happens: see, carry away, be, make, pursue, bring back · To what, where: wealth, whole country, cavalry mount, Six, strong man
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, single man, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 carrying | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carrying | aux |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 carrying | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wealth | det |
| 15 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wealth | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 angry | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 angry | advmod |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mount | nmod:poss |
| 28 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mount | compound |
| 29 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pursue | cc |
| 31 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Six | det |
| 33 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 pursue | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 bring | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 39 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 sack | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sack | det |
| 43 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past · progressive | a single man | the wealth of the whole country | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | man | the whole country not said here | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | the King not said here | man's cavalry mount | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mount=Product | ||||
| 5 | pursue | infinitive | the King not said here | the Six | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring back | infinitive | the King not said here | the strong man | with the sack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
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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