The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 16
After some years he met with a famous Eastern magician, and asked for his advice in the matter.
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: meet, ask
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 (wisdom), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 magician | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magician | amod |
| 9 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magician | amod |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 advice | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 advice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advice | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | wisdom | year | with a famous Eastern magician | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with magician=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | wisdom not said here | for wisdom's advice in the matter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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