The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 85

In very ancient times there lived a King, whose power lay not only in the vast extent of his dominions, but also in the magic secrets of which he was master.

Who acts: power · What happens: live, lie, be, extend · To what, where: King, magic secrets, vast extent, dominions

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 (power), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 times	case
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 ancient	advmod
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 times	amod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 King	acl:relcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 extent	advmod
14	only	only	ADV	_	18 extent	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 extent	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 extent	det
17	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 extent	amod
18	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 dominions	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dominions	nmod:poss
21	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 extent	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 secrets	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 secrets	cc
24	also	also	ADV	_	28 secrets	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 secrets	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 secrets	det
27	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 secrets	compound
28	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 master	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 master	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 master	cop
33	master	master	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 secrets	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King	the magic secrets; there	time		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	lie	past	power	the vast extent of power's dominions				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location extent=Theme
3	is	past	power				of the magic secrets; master property	tree rules
4	extend			power's dominions				nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient

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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