The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 51
The Queen’s decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound for her brother, and put Hadvor into it beside him.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: be, put, decide · To what, where: Hadvor, mound
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, Queen), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 decision | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Queen | case |
| 4 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mound | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mound | amod |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mound | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 grave | punct |
| 15 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mound | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 22 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should · past | the King | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Hadvor | mound | beside brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hadvor=Theme beside he=Destination | |||
| 3 | decide | the Queen | nom decision «act transitive»: 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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