The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 135
‘I will raise an army for the King,’ and he drew himself up.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: raise, draw up · To what, where: army, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 raise | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 raise | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 raise | aux |
| 4 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raise | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raise | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 raise | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 raise | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raise | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 drew | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 drew | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | future | I | a army | for the King | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw up | past | King | King | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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