The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 3
The King and Queen had also a foster son, named Hermod, who was just about the same age as Hadvor, and was good-looking, as well as clever at most things.
Who acts: foster son · What happens: name, be, look · To what, where: foster son, same age
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 (foster son), 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 | 9 son | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | aux |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 son | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | compound |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 son | acl |
| 12 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 age | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 age | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 age | cop |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 about | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 age | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 age | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | appos |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Hadvor | case |
| 22 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 age | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looking | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 looking | aux |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looking | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 son | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 clever | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 33 clever | cc |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 as | fixed |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 as | fixed |
| 33 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looking | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 things | case |
| 35 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 things | amod |
| 36 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 clever | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a foster son not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a foster son | the same age | as Hadvor; about property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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