The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 95

One evening, however, while they all sat dull and down-hearted, in came Hermod with a sword by his side, and saluted the King, who received him with the greatest joy, as if he had come back from the dead.

Who acts: monsters, Hermod, King · What happens: sit, come, salute, receive, come back · To what, where: King, Hermod, dead

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 (monsters, Hermod, King), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sat	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 they	det
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sat	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hearted	cc
12	down	down	ADV	_	14 hearted	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 down	punct
14	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dull	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 came	case
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
18	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 sword	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sword	det
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 side	nmod:poss
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saluted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saluted	cc
27	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saluted	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 received	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 received	nsubj
32	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 King	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 received	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 joy	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 joy	det
36	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 joy	amod
37	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 received	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 come	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 come	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 saluted	conj
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 come	advmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 dead	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 dead	det
47	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 come	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	monsters = monster			evening	dull, however property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Hermod				with a sword; by Hermod's side	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location
3	salute	past	monsters = monster not said here	the King				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic
4	receive	past	the King	Hermod			with the greatest joy	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	come back a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Hermod		the dead			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dead=Initial_Location

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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