The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 60
Next morning the King asked Ring and Red to go and cut down trees for him, and both agreed.
Who acts: King, both · What happens: ask, go, cut down, agree · To what, where: Ring, trees
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, both), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Red | cc |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ring | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cut | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 agreed | cc |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 agreed | nsubj |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asked | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | Ring and Red | morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut down | infinitive | the King not said here | trees | for Red | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tree=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | participle | both | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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