The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 6

All the people in the land loved him dearly, and called him the Sun-Hero, for they did not think his like existed under the sun. Now it happened one night that both his parents had the same extraordinary dream.

Who acts: people, King, parents · What happens: love, call, not think, exist, happen, have · To what, where: King, sun., one night · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, King, parents), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loved	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	obj
9	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	7 loved	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loved	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hero	det
15	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hero	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Sun	punct
17	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 think	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 think	advmod
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 called	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 happened	nsubj
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	26 existed	mark
26	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 happened	advcl
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 sun.	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun.	det
29	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 existed	obl
30	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 happened	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 happened	nsubj
32	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 think	ccomp
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 night	nummod
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 happened	obl:unmarked
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 had	obj
36	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	38 parents	det:predet
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 parents	nmod:poss
38	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 night	acl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 dream	det
41	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dream	amod
42	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dream	amod
43	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	all people in the land	King				dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	call	past			King				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not think speech: other	past · do-support	people						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	exist	participle	King not said here			the sun.			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sun.=Location
5	happen	past	King				now; night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	King's parents	one night					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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