The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 50

He went at once to his son Iwanich, and after embracing him tenderly and heaping praises on him, he asked him how he had succeeded in protecting the costly fruit from the power of the magician.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: go, embrace, heap, ask, succeed, protect · To what, where: gardener, praises, Iwanich, costly fruit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gardener), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 embracing	mark
12	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 asked	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 embracing	obj
14	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 embracing	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heaping	cc
16	heaping	heap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 embracing	conj
17	praises	praise	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heaping	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 praises	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 embracing	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	iobj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 succeeded	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 succeeded	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 succeeded	aux
27	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 asked	ccomp
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 protecting	mark
29	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 succeeded	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fruit	det
31	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fruit	amod
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 protecting	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 power	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 power	det
35	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 protecting	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 magician	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 magician	det
38	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 power	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	gardener			to gardener's son	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_Location
2	embrace	gerund	gardener not said here	gardener		tenderly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	heap	gerund	gardener not said here	praises		on gardener	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent praise=Theme on he=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	past	gardener		Iwanich		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	succeed	past · perfect	gardener				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	protect	gerund	gardener not said here	the costly fruit		from the power of the magician	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fruit=Beneficiary from power=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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