The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 81
When the King received the message, he said, ‘Let the fellows go; they are bewitched.’
Who acts: King, fellows · What happens: receive, say, let, go, bewitch · To what, where: message, wounds · 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, fellows), 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 received | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 message | det |
| 6 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fellows | det |
| 14 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Let | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewitched | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bewitched | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 19 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewitched | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the King | the message | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | present | the fellows | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bewitch | present · passive | wounds = wound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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