The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 98

Hermod now told the whole story to the King, who was very glad to be rid of such vile creatures.

Who acts: Hermod, whole story · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: whole story, King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hermod, whole story), 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	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 glad	advmod
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	17 rid	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 rid	cop
17	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 glad	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 creatures	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creatures	amod
20	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creatures	amod
21	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hermod	the whole story	the King	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to king=Recipient
2	is	past	the whole story				glad property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	the whole story not said here				of such vile creatures; rid property	tree rules

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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