The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 34
And the First Lord ran again to the Emperor, and told him that it must be an invention on the part of those who had written the books.
Who acts: First Lord, kingdom · What happens: run, tell, be, write · To what, where: Lord, invention, part, books · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (First Lord, kingdom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lord | det |
| 3 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Lord | amod |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 invention | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 invention | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 invention | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 invention | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 invention | det |
| 19 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invention | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 those | case |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 part | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 written | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 written | aux |
| 27 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 those | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 books | det |
| 29 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 written | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the First Lord | again | to the Emperor result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to emperor=Result | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the First Lord not said here | Lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | must | kingdom | a invention | the part of those | tree rules | |||
| 4 | write | past · perfect · passive | the books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient book=Topic |
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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