The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 109
The ring formerly belonged to King Solomon, the wisest of kings, during whose reign the wisest men lived.
Who acts: ring, wisest men · What happens: belong, live · To what, where: King Solomon, reign
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, wisest men), 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 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 4 belonged | advmod |
| 4 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Solomon | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Solomon | compound |
| 7 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kings | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kings | det |
| 10 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 kings | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kings | case |
| 12 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Solomon | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reign | punct |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 reign | case |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 reign | nmod:poss |
| 16 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reign | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the ring | King Solomon and the wisest kings | during reign | formerly property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | live | past | the wisest men | reign not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme reign=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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