The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 136
‘But if, after that, the King refuses to accept me as his son-in-law, I will wage war against him, and carry the Princess off by force.’
Who acts: King, that · What happens: refuse, not accept, wage, carry off · To what, where: me, war, Princess
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 (King, that), 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 | _ | 24 wage | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 that | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 that | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 if | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 wage | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refuses | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 refuses | nsubj |
| 10 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 that | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 accept | mark |
| 12 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 refuses | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 accept | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accept | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accept | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wage | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 wage | aux |
| 24 | wage | wage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wage | obj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wage | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 carry | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carry | cc |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wage | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Princess | det |
| 32 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carry | obj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 carry | compound:prt |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 force | case |
| 35 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carry | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 wage | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | the King | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not accept | to-infinitive | the King not said here | me | as King's son | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as son=Attribute | |||
| 3 | wage | future | that | war | against King | tree rules | |||
| 4 | carry off | infinitive | that not said here | the Princess | by force | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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