The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 169
The old King did not need to urge his daughter to marry the slayer of the Dragon; he found her already willing to bestow her hand upon this hero, who had done all alone what whole armies had tried in vain to do.
Who acts: old King, wisdom, hero, whole armies · What happens: not need, urge, marry, find, bestow, do · To what, where: daughter, slayer, conqueror, hand
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 (old King, wisdom, hero, whole armies), 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 need | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 need | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 need | advmod |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 urge | mark |
| 8 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 urge | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 urge | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slayer | det |
| 14 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marry | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dragon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dragon | det |
| 17 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 slayer | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 need | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 willing | advmod |
| 23 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 found | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bestow | mark |
| 25 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | advcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bestow | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 hero | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 hero | det |
| 30 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bestow | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 done | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 done | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 hero | acl:relcl |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 alone | advmod |
| 36 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 34 done | advmod |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 tried | obj |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 armies | amod |
| 39 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 tried | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tried | aux |
| 41 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 done | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 vain | case |
| 43 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tried | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 vain | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | past · do-support | the old King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | urge not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old King not said here | wisdom's daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old King not said here | the slayer of the Dragon | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slayer=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | wisdom | conqueror | willing property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 5 | bestow | to-infinitive | wisdom not said here | conqueror's hand | upon this hero | tree rules | |||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | this hero | alone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | try | past · perfect | whole armies | vain property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | whole armies not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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