The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 172

In this distress, the King’s son-in-law resolved to seek help once more from the Eastern magician, to whom he at once travelled through the air like a bird by the help of the ring.

Who acts: son · What happens: resolve, seek, travel, help · To what, where: law, help, air, ring

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 (son), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 distress	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 distress	det
3	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 law	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 distress	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 law	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 law	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seek	mark
15	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 resolved	xcomp
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seek	obj
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 seek	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 magician	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 magician	det
21	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 magician	amod
22	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 resolved	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 travelled	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 travelled	obl
29	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 whom	acl:relcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 travelled	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 bird	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bird	det
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 travelled	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 help	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 help	det
38	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 travelled	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 ring	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ring	det
41	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 help	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resolve	participle		law not said here		to law	tree rules
2	seek	to-infinitive		help			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
3	travel	past	son		the air	like a bird; by the help of the ring	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
4	help			the ring			nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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