The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 139
On the instant the twelve youths appeared, and asked her what she commanded them to do.
Who acts: twelve youths, feast · What happens: appear, ask, command, do · To what, where: instant, feast, words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (twelve youths, feast), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youths | det |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 youths | nummod |
| 6 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 commanded | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 commanded | nsubj |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 commanded | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 commanded | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the twelve youths | the instant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on instant=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the twelve youths not said here | feast | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | command | past | feast | words = word | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | feast 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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