The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 151

The youth then went to the King and told him that he had good hopes of subduing the Dragon, if the King would grant him all he desired for the purpose.

Who acts: youth, wisdom, good hopes, King · What happens: go, tell, have, subdue, grant, desire · To what, where: wisdom, good hopes, Dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, wisdom, good hopes, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hopes	amod
15	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 subduing	mark
17	subduing	subdue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 hopes	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Dragon	det
19	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 subduing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grant	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 grant	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 grant	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grant	aux
25	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grant	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 desired	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 desired	nsubj
29	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grant	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 purpose	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 purpose	det
32	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 desired	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth			then	to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the youth not said here		wisdom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	wisdom	good hopes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
4	subdue	gerund	good hopes not said here	the Dragon				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
5	grant a condition, not said to happen	would	the King	wisdom				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	desire	past	wisdom				for the purpose	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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