The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 9

A celebrated magician, who had given the seed to my father, promised him that they would grow into the three finest trees the world had ever seen.

Who acts: celebrated magician, trees, world · What happens: celebrate, give, promise, grow, see · To what, where: seed, father, King, three finest trees

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 (celebrated magician, trees, world), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 magician	det
2	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 magician	amod
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 promised	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 magician	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seed	det
9	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 magician	punct
14	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 grow	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grow	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	aux
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promised	advcl
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 trees	nummod
23	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 trees	amod
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 trees	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past · perfect	a celebrated magician	the seed	my father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to father=Recipient
3	promise speech: promise	past	a celebrated magician		King			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	grow	would	trees = tree				into the three finest trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result
5	see	past · perfect	the world	the three finest trees not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus

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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