The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 100

He forbade his courtiers to frighten it, and the monkey, noticing how much attention was being paid him, sprang from bough to bough, and at length gradually approached the King, who offered him some food.

Who acts: King, monkey · What happens: forbid, frighten, notice, pay, spring, approach · To what, where: courtiers, tree, much attention, monkey, bough, King

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, monkey), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forbade	nsubj
2	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courtiers	nmod:poss
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forbade	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 frighten	mark
6	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forbade	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frighten	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 paid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paid	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	nsubj:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 noticing	punct
13	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 monkey	acl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 attention	amod
16	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noticing	obj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 paid	aux:pass
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 paid	aux:pass
19	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 forbade	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 paid	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sprang	punct
22	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forbade	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 bough	case
24	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprang	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 bough	case
26	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprang	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 approached	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 approached	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 length	case
30	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 approached	obl
31	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	32 approached	advmod
32	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forbade	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 approached	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 offered	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 offered	nsubj
37	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 King	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 offered	iobj
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 food	det
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 offered	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forbade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	forbid	past	King	King's courtiers				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer courtier=Theme
2	frighten	to-infinitive	King not said here	tree				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
3	notice	gerund	the monkey not said here	much attention				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
4	pay	past · passive		the monkey				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient he=Asset
5	spring	past	King not said here			bough	to bough	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bough=Destination
6	approach	past	King not said here	the King		length	gradually property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
7	offer	past	the King	some food	King			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal food=Theme

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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