The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 18
The King immediately asked her hand; she gladly received his proposal and accepted him at once.
Who acts: King, third, Hetland · What happens: ask, receive, accept, propose · To what, where: hand, proposal, Hetland
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, third, Hetland), 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 | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 received | nsubj |
| 9 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 10 received | advmod |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 12 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 accepted | cc |
| 14 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accepted | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 accepted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | third's hand | immediately property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient | |||
| 2 | receive | past | third | Hetland's proposal | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept | past | third not said here | Hetland | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | propose | Hetland | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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