The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 99

Next he asked for the hand of Hadvor, which the King readily gave him, and being now an old man, gave the kingdom to him as well; and so Hermod became King.

Who acts: Hermod, Hadvor · What happens: ask, give, be, become · To what, where: Hermod, old man, kingdom

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, Hadvor), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Hadvor	case
8	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hand	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gave	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
13	readily	readily	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Hadvor	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 man	cc
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 man	cop
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 man	advmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kingdom	det
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	obl
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	24 gave	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 became	advmod
34	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 became	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Hermod				for the hand; next property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	Hadvor		Hermod		readily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is a	gerund		a old man		now		tree rules
4	give	past	Hermod not said here	the kingdom	Hermod			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to he=Recipient
5	become	past	Hermod					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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