The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 47
And before the King had time to reply, the Fire-son seized him in a tight embrace.
Who acts: King, Fire son · What happens: have, reply, seize · To what, where: King, tight embrace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Fire son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seized | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | advcl |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reply | mark |
| 8 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 11 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fire | punct |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seized | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 embrace | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 embrace | det |
| 18 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 embrace | amod |
| 19 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | the Fire son | King | a tight embrace | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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