The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 87
After a year’s time a son was born, worthy in every way of such distinguished parents, and much admired by the whole Court.
What happens: bear, admire · To what, where: son, way
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 year | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worthy | punct |
| 11 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 born | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 parents | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parents | amod |
| 17 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parents | amod |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 way | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 admired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 admired | cc |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 admired | advmod |
| 22 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 born | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Court | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Court | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Court | amod |
| 26 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 admired | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a son | every way of such distinguished parents | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | admire | participle | by the whole Court | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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