The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 28
The King, who was very brave, assured the Queen that he would soon punish the conspirators.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, assure, punish · To what, where: Queen, conspirators
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brave | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 brave | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brave | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 brave | advmod |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assured | punct |
| 9 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brave | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 assured | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 punish | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 punish | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 punish | aux |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 punish | advmod |
| 16 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 assured | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 conspirators | det |
| 18 | conspirators | conspirator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 punish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assure | participle | the King not said here | the Queen | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | punish | would | King | the conspirators | soon property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conspirator=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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