The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 22

‘Yes,’ answered the Sun-Hero, ‘I will guard the Tree of the Sun nine days and nine nights.’

Who acts: I · What happens: answer, guard · To what, where: Sun Hero, Tree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hero	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hero	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Sun	punct
9	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guard	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 guard	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 guard	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 guard	aux
14	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tree	det
16	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 guard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Sun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sun	det
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tree	nmod
20	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 guard	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nights	cc
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 nights	nummod
24	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 days	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the Sun Hero				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hero=Eventuality
2	guard	future	I		the Tree of the Sun		day		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary

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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