The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 82
After this the King set Ring next to himself, and all esteemed him highly, and held him to be a great hero; nor could Red any longer say anything against him, though he grew still more determined to destroy him.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: esteem, hold, be, say, grow, destroy · To what, where: all, Prince, great hero, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 Ring | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Ring | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ring | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ring | compound |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ring | compound |
| 6 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 Ring | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 next | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 esteemed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 esteemed | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Ring | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 esteemed | obj |
| 15 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 13 esteemed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 held | cc |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 esteemed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hero | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hero | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hero | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hero | amod |
| 24 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 could | cc |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | aux |
| 28 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 could | flat |
| 29 | any | any | ADV | _ | 30 longer | advmod |
| 30 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 say | advmod |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 held | parataxis |
| 32 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 say | obj |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 anything | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grew | punct |
| 36 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 grew | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 grew | nsubj |
| 38 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | conj |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 41 determined | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 determined | advmod |
| 41 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 grew | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 destroy | mark |
| 43 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 determined | xcomp |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 destroy | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | esteem | participle · passive | all | highly property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a great hero | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | could | anything | against Prince; long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | Prince | determined property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | destroy | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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