The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 5

His father could not make enough of his son, and always had him clothed in golden garments which shone and sparkled like the sun; and his mother gave him a white horse, which never slept, and which flew like the wind.

Who acts: father, King, golden garments, mother, white horse · What happens: not make, have, clothe, shine, sparkle, give · To what, where: enough, King, white horse

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 (father, King, golden garments, mother), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obj
15	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 garments	case
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 garments	amod
18	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clothed	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 shone	nsubj
20	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 garments	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sparkled	cc
22	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 shone	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sparkled	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 horse	det
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slept	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 slept	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 slept	advmod
38	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 horse	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flew	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flew	cc
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 flew	nsubj
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gave	conj
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 wind	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wind	det
45	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not make	could	King's father	enough			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Product
2	have	past		King		always property	tree rules
3	clothe	participle	King not said here			in golden garments	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in garment=Theme
4	shine	past	golden garments				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sparkle	participle	golden garments not said here			like the sun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	past	King's mother	a white horse	King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme
7	not sleep	past	a white horse				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fly	past				like the wind	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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