The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 206
Then the mild King answered: ‘Beloved Prince and son-in-law, if you love me, let your anger be turned to grace--forgive my daughter, and restore her to your heart and favour.’
Who acts: mild King, you, anger, your · What happens: answer, love, let, turn, grace, forgive · To what, where: me, anger, daughter, punishment, heart
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 (mild King, you, anger, your), 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 | 5 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 8 | Beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Prince | amod |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 law | cc |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 law | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 love | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Prince | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | parataxis |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 anger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 turned | aux:pass |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 let | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 grace | case |
| 28 | grace | grace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 turned | xcomp |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 forgive | punct |
| 30 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | conj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forgive | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 restore | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 restore | cc |
| 35 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 love | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 restore | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 restore | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 favour | cc |
| 41 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heart | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the mild King | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | your anger | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive · passive | your anger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | grace | infinitive | your anger not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | forgive | infinitive | my daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||||
| 7 | restore | infinitive | you not said here | punishment | your heart and favour | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to heart=Recipient | |||
| 8 | anger | your | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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