The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 49
The eldest of their tribe was entrusted to carry out their revenge.
Who acts: hatred · What happens: entrust, carry out, revenge · To what, where: eldest, revenge
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 (hatred), 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 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tribe | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eldest | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 7 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 entrusted | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 carry | compound:prt |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 12 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past · passive | the eldest of hatred's tribe | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | hatred's revenge | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | revenge | hatred | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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