The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 198
On this the King sent at once a messenger to the Starvation Tower, and he was so astonished with what he saw that he remained rooted to the spot.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, be, see, root · To what, where: Starvation Tower, this, King
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sent | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 messenger | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 messenger | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 messenger | det |
| 9 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Tower | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tower | det |
| 12 | Starvation | Starvation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tower | compound |
| 13 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 astonished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 astonished | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 astonished | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 astonished | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 astonished | advmod |
| 19 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sent | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 what | case |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 astonished | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 rooted | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rooted | nsubj |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rooted | aux:pass |
| 27 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 astonished | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 spot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spot | det |
| 30 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rooted | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | the Starvation Tower | this | at a messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tower=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | King | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | root | past · passive | King | to the spot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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