The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 86
Then they were fetched, to the great joy of the King, and the wicked mother came to no good end.
Who acts: wicked mother · What happens: fetch, come, joy · To what, where: children, good end, 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 (wicked 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fetched | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetched | aux:pass |
| 4 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joy | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 joy | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 joy | amod |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 joy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mother | det |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mother | amod |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetched | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 end | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 end | amod |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past · passive | children = child | then | to the great joy of the King | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the wicked mother | to no good end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | joy | the King | nom joy «feeling 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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