The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 9
The King in his anguish of mind consented, and the old woman led him to her little house where her daughter was sitting by the fire.
Who acts: King, daughter, mind · What happens: consent, lead, sit, anguish · To what, where: mind, condition, little house
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 (King, daughter, mind), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 led | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 anguish | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 anguish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anguish | nmod |
| 8 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mind | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 led | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | nsubj |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 sitting | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sitting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sitting | aux |
| 24 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 house | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sitting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | mind not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the King in king's anguish of mind | condition | woman's little house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | woman's daughter | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 4 | anguish | mind | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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