The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 97
The young King was devoted to hunting, and often indulged in his favourite pastime, attended by the noblest youths in his kingdom.
What happens: devote, indulge, attend · To what, where: young King, hunting, favourite pastime
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 devoted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devoted | aux:pass |
| 5 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hunting | case |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 indulged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 indulged | cc |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 indulged | advmod |
| 11 | indulged | indulge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 devoted | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pastime | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pastime | nmod:poss |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pastime | amod |
| 15 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indulged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 attended | punct |
| 17 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 indulged | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 youths | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youths | det |
| 20 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 youths | amod |
| 21 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attended | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 youths | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | past · passive | the young King | to hunting goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to hunting=Goal | ||||
| 2 | indulge | participle | King's favourite pastime | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attend | participle | by the noblest youths in King's kingdom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by youth=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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