The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 65

Now as magicians lose all their power as soon as they are in prison, the King felt himself much embarrassed at being thus at the mercy of those he had so greatly offended.

Who acts: magicians, bride, King · What happens: lose, be, feel, have · To what, where: power, King, mercy

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 (magicians, bride, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 felt	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 lose	mark
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 felt	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 power	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 power	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lose	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	14 prison	case
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prison	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prison	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 prison	case
14	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soon	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 felt	obj
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 embarrassed	advmod
21	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 felt	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	27 mercy	case
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 mercy	cop
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 mercy	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 mercy	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mercy	det
27	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 embarrassed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 mercy	nmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 those	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 offended	advmod
33	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	34 offended	advmod
34	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 had	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	magicians	bride's power			soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
2	is	present	bride				as prison	tree rules
3	feel	past	the King	King		now	embarrassed property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	is	gerund			the mercy		of those; thus property	tree rules
5	have	past	King				offended property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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