The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 199
Then the King sent his chief counsellors, and they too were transfixed with wonder.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, transfix · To what, where: chief counsellors, counsellors
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 | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 counsellors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 counsellors | amod |
| 7 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 transfixed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 transfixed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 transfixed | nsubj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 transfixed | advmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 transfixed | aux:pass |
| 13 | transfixed | transfix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wonder | case |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transfixed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | King's chief counsellors | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Theme | |||
| 2 | transfix | past · passive | counsellors = counsellor | with wonder | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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