The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 3
Many, many thousand years ago there lived a mighty King whom heaven had blessed with a clever and beautiful son.
What happens: live, bless · To what, where: mighty King
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: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 King | amod |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 blessed | aux |
| 15 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lived | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 son | det |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 son | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beautiful | cc |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clever | conj |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blessed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a mighty King | there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | bless | past · perfect · passive | with a clever son | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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