The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 125

And, stepping to the front of the hut, Martin threw his ring from the palm of one hand into the other, upon which twelve youths instantly appeared, and demanded what he wanted them to do.

Who acts: Martin, twelve youths, youth, fear · What happens: step, throw, appear, demand, want, do · To what, where: front, ring, palm, fear

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, twelve youths, youth, fear), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stepping	punct
3	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 threw	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 front	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepping	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stepping	punct
11	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ring	nmod:poss
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 palm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palm	det
17	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hand	nummod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 palm	nmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 threw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appeared	punct
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 appeared	obl
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 youths	nummod
28	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 appeared	nsubj
29	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	30 appeared	advmod
30	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 demanded	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 demanded	cc
33	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 appeared	conj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 demanded	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wanted	nsubj
36	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wanted	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 wanted	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	gerund	Martin not said here		the front of the hut		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination
2	throw	past	Martin	Martin's ring	the palm of one hand	into the other	tree rules
3	appear	past	twelve youths			instantly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location
4	demand speech: request	past	twelve youths not said here				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition
5	want	past	youth	fear			tree rules
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	fear not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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