The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 9

The Queen consented with many tears, and the King at once bade his son set forth in search of the Tree of the Sun, from which he was to pluck a golden apple.

Who acts: Queen, bade, son · What happens: consent, set, be, search · To what, where: search, 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 (Queen, bade, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tears	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tears	amod
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bade	nmod:poss
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 King	obl
13	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 search	case
19	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Tree	det
22	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 search	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sun	det
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Tree	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pluck	punct
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 pluck	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pluck	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pluck	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pluck	mark
32	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 apple	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 apple	amod
35	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pluck	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	the Queen			with many tears	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	past	the King's bade		search of the Tree of the Sun	forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in search=Destination
3	is	past	son			pluck property	tree rules
4	search			the Tree of the Sun			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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