The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 44
So Martin consented, and for a year he worked diligently, and served his master faithfully, not sparing himself in any way.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: consent, work, serve, not spare · To what, where: master, Martin, way
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 (Martin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 consented | advmod |
| 2 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 worked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 worked | cc |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worked | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 worked | nsubj |
| 10 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | ccomp |
| 11 | diligently | diligently | ADV | _ | 10 worked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 served | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 served | cc |
| 14 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | obj |
| 17 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 14 served | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sparing | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sparing | advmod |
| 20 | sparing | spare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 served | advcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 sparing | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sparing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Martin | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | past | Martin | year | diligently property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | serve | past | Martin not said here | Martin's master | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Attribute | |||
| 4 | not spare | gerund | Martin not said here | Martin | any way | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Asset |
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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