The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 86
Just then the courtier arrived, bearing the King’s command.
Who acts: courtier, King · What happens: arrive, bear, command · To what, where: command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (courtier, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtier | det |
| 4 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bearing | punct |
| 7 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 command | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bearing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the courtier | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | the courtier not said here | the King's command | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient | ||||
| 3 | command | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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