The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 99
The King determined to think of a still more impossible task.
Who acts: King · What happens: determine, think
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 task | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 task | det |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 impossible | advmod |
| 10 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 task | amod |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the King | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the King not said here | of a impossible task | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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