The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 25

The King consented, and as soon as evening drew on Szabo climbed up on to one of the trees, determined to protect the fruit even if it cost him his life.

Who acts: King, Szabo, fruit · What happens: consent, draw, climb up, determine, protect, cost · To what, where: fruit, life, King

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, Szabo, fruit), 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	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drew	cc
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 drew	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 evening	case
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obl
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 climbed	mark
12	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 climbed	nsubj
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drew	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbed	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 one	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 climbed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct
22	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 climbed	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 protect	mark
24	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fruit	det
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protect	obj
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 cost	advmod
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 cost	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cost	nsubj
30	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 protect	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cost	iobj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 life	nmod:poss
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cost	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	the King					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	past	the King not said here			evening	soon property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb up	past	Szabo				on one of the trees	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory
4	determine	participle	Szabo not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	protect	to-infinitive	Szabo not said here	the fruit				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Beneficiary
6	cost a condition, not said to happen	past	fruit	King's life	King			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value

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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