The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 12
The King retorted that her opposition filled him with despair, but that he hoped to carry her to a place where all around would respect her, and where every pleasure would surround her.
Who acts: King, opposition, pleasure, Princess · What happens: retort, fill, hope, carry, respect, surround · To what, where: King, Princess, place · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, opposition, pleasure, Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 retorted | nsubj |
| 3 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 filled | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 opposition | nmod:poss |
| 6 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retorted | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 despair | case |
| 10 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hoped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hoped | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 hoped | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hoped | nsubj |
| 15 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retorted | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hoped | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 respect | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 around | advmod |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 26 respect | advmod |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 respect | aux |
| 26 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 respect | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 surround | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 surround | cc |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 surround | advmod |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 pleasure | det |
| 32 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 surround | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 surround | aux |
| 34 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 retorted | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 surround | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retort speech: other | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | Princess's opposition | King | with despair | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with despair=Instrument | |||
| 3 | hope | past | opposition | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | opposition not said here | Princess | a place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 5 | respect | would | Princess | around property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | surround | would | every pleasure | Princess | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 7 | oppose | Princess | nom opposition «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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