The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 152
The King willingly agreed, and the iron horse, the great spear, and the chains were all prepared as the youth requested.
Who acts: King · What happens: agree, prepare, request · To what, where: iron horse, chains, youth
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 (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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 horse | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horse | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spear | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spear | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spear | amod |
| 13 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prepared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prepared | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chains | det |
| 17 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prepared | aux:pass |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 prepared | advmod |
| 20 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 youth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prepared | obl |
| 24 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 youth | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the King | the iron horse and the great spear | willingly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | |||
| 2 | prepare | past · passive | the chains | as the youth; all property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as youth=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | request | participle | the youth not said here | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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