The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 43
King Alphege insisted on his brother sharing his throne, and they all lived to a good old age, universally beloved and admired.
Who acts: King, presents · What happens: insist, share, live, belov, admire · To what, where: throne
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, presents), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 insisted | nsubj |
| 2 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 insisted | obl |
| 7 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 insisted | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 throne | nmod:poss |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sharing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lived | advmod |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 insisted | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 age | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 age | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beloved | punct |
| 21 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 22 beloved | advmod |
| 22 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lived | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 admired | cc |
| 24 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 beloved | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | King | on King's brother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | share | gerund | King not said here | King's throne | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | presents = present | to a good old age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | belov | participle | universally property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | admire | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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