The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 168
His conqueror was received into the city with as much pomp as if he had been the mightiest of kings.
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: receive, be · To what, where: conqueror, city
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 conqueror | nmod:poss |
| 2 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | aux:pass |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pomp | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pomp | amod |
| 11 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 mightiest | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 mightiest | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mightiest | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mightiest | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 mightiest | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mightiest | det |
| 18 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 received | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kings | case |
| 20 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mightiest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | wisdom's conqueror | the city with much pomp | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | wisdom | of kings; mighty property | tree rules |
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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