The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 69
Upon which the King turned to Martin with a gracious smile, saying: ‘I will reward your courage by granting you whatever your heart desires.
Who acts: King, I, heart · What happens: turn, say, reward, grant, desire · To what, where: Martin, courage, you, whatever · 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, I, heart), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 turned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Martin | case |
| 7 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 smile | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 10 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 smile | amod |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turned | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reward | aux |
| 18 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 courage | nmod:poss |
| 20 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reward | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 granting | mark |
| 22 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 reward | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 granting | obj |
| 24 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 desires | obj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 desires | nsubj |
| 27 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 granting | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the King | Martin | with a gracious smile | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon which=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reward | future | I | your courage | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | grant | gerund | I not said here | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | desire | present | your heart | whatever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |
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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