The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 58
The huntsmen would not leave her alone, but climbed the tree, lifted the maiden down, and led her to the King.
Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: not leave, climb, lift down, lead · To what, where: maiden, tree, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen), 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 huntsmen | det |
| 2 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 leave | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 climbed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 climbed | cc |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 climbed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 lifted | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 climbed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 King | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | would | the huntsmen | maiden | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | climb | past | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift down | past | the maiden | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | maiden | the King | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to king=Destination |
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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