The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 57

Immediately he took the shape of a harpy, and, filled with rage, was determined to devour his son, and even the Princess too, if only he could overtake them.

Who acts: King · What happens: take, fill, be, devour, overtake · To what, where: shape, son

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), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shape	det
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 harpy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 harpy	det
8	harpy	harpy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shape	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 filled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 filled	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 filled	punct
12	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 rage	case
14	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determined	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	cop
17	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 devour	mark
19	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 determined	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 devour	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Princess	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Princess	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 Princess	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	conj
27	too	too	ADV	_	26 Princess	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 overtake	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 overtake	mark
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 overtake	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 overtake	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 overtake	aux
33	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 overtake	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	King	the shape of a harpy	immediately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	fill	participle	King not said here		with rage	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rage=Instrument
3	is	past	King not said here		determined property	tree rules
4	devour	to-infinitive	King not said here	King's son		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	overtake a condition, not said to happen	could	King	son		tree rules

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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