The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 67
No sooner was this done than the Wizard King was seen in the air under the form of some unknown bird, exclaiming as he flew off that he would never forgive either his son or the Fairy the cruel wrong they had done him.
Who acts: King, doors · What happens: do, see, exclaim, fly off, not forgive, form · To what, where: this, Wizard King, air, King, unknown bird · 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, doors), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 form | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 form | det |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bird | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 bird | det |
| 20 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bird | amod |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 form | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exclaiming | punct |
| 23 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 done | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 flew | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 exclaiming | ccomp |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 flew | compound:prt |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 forgive | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forgive | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 forgive | aux |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 forgive | advmod |
| 32 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 flew | conj |
| 33 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 35 son | cc:preconj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forgive | vocative |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Fairy | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Fairy | det |
| 38 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 son | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wrong | det |
| 40 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wrong | amod |
| 41 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | appos |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 wrong | acl:relcl |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the Wizard King | the air | under the form of some unknown bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | fly off | past | King | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not forgive | would | King | King's son or the Fairy vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | doors = door | King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | form | some unknown bird | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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