The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 4

When he was only ten years old the boy was cleverer than all the King’s counsellors put together, and when he was twenty he was the greatest hero in the whole kingdom.

Who acts: King, boy, twenty · What happens: be, put together · To what, where: counsellors, twenty, greatest hero, whole kingdom

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 (King, boy, twenty), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ten	advmod
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cleverer	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cleverer	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cleverer	cop
11	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	than	than	ADP	_	17 counsellors	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 counsellors	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 counsellors	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cleverer	obl
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 counsellors	acl
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hero	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hero	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 twenty	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 twenty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 twenty	cop
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hero	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hero	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hero	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hero	det
29	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 hero	amod
30	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cleverer	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 kingdom	amod
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hero	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cleverer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	King			year	old property	tree rules
2	is	past	the boy				than the King's counsellors; clever property	tree rules
3	put together	participle		the King's counsellors not said here			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	King	twenty				tree rules
5	is a	past	twenty	the greatest hero	the whole kingdom			tree rules

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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