The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 145
Then the King was very angry, and, calling a council together, he charged Martin with having been guilty of witchcraft, and of having deceived the King, and having made away with the Princess; and he was condemned to imprisonment in a high stone tower, with neither meat nor drink, till he should die of starvation.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, call, charge, have, deceive, make away · To what, where: council, Martin, King, high stone tower · 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 (King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 charged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 charged | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calling | punct |
| 10 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 charged | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 council | det |
| 12 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calling | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 calling | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calling | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 charged | nsubj |
| 16 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 17 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 charged | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 guilty | case |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 guilty | amod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 guilty | cop |
| 21 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 charged | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 witchcraft | case |
| 23 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guilty | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deceived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deceived | cc |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 having | mark |
| 27 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 deceived | aux |
| 28 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 charged | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 deceived | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 33 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 made | aux |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 deceived | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 made | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 Princess | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Princess | det |
| 38 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 condemned | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 condemned | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 condemned | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 condemned | aux:pass |
| 43 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 charged | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 imprisonment | case |
| 45 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 condemned | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 tower | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 tower | det |
| 48 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 tower | amod |
| 49 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 tower | compound |
| 50 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 condemned | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 meat | punct |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 meat | case |
| 53 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 54 meat | det |
| 54 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 condemned | obl |
| 55 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 56 drink | cc |
| 56 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 meat | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 die | punct |
| 58 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 61 die | mark |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 die | nsubj |
| 60 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 die | aux |
| 61 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 condemned | conj |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 starvation | case |
| 63 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 die | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | King not said here | a council | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | |||
| 3 | charge | past | King | Martin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | participle | with having guilty; of witchcraft | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | deceive | gerund · perfect | the King | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||||
| 7 | make away | gerund · perfect | with the Princess; away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | condemn | past · passive | King | a high stone tower | to imprisonment; with neither meat nor drink | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 9 | die | should | King | of starvation | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |
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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