The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 23
This idea made him horribly uneasy, and he resolved to remove the cause of his fears by sending the Prince on his travels escorted by a magnificent retinue.
Who acts: idea, King · What happens: make, resolve, remove, send, travel, escort · To what, where: King, cause, Prince, fears
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 (idea, King), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 6 uneasy | advmod |
| 6 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 resolved | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 resolved | nsubj |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remove | mark |
| 12 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cause | det |
| 14 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remove | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fears | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cause | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 sending | mark |
| 19 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 remove | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sending | obj |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 24 travels | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 travels | nmod:poss |
| 24 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sending | advcl |
| 25 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 travels | xcomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 retinue | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 retinue | det |
| 28 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 retinue | amod |
| 29 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 escorted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this idea | King | uneasy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 2 | resolve | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remove | to-infinitive | King not said here | the cause of King's fears | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | gerund | King not said here | the Prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | escort | participle | King not said here | by a magnificent retinue | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination | ||||
| 7 | cause | King's fears | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | fear | King | nom fear «feeling 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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