The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 193
At last a celebrated magician from Finland was brought before the King, who had found out that the King’s son-in-law was imprisoned in the East, not by men, but by some more powerful being.
Who acts: King, men · What happens: celebrate, bring, find out, imprison · To what, where: last celebrated magician, son, East
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, men), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 magician | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 magician | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 4 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 magician | amod |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Finland | case |
| 7 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 magician | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 King | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 found | compound:prt |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 imprisoned | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 law | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 28 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 found | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 East | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 East | det |
| 31 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 imprisoned | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 men | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 men | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 men | case |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 imprisoned | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 powerful | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 powerful | cc |
| 38 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 41 powerful | mark |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 powerful | nsubj |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 powerful | advmod |
| 41 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brought | conj |
| 42 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 powerful | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | a last celebrated magician from Finland | before the King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before king=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find out | past · perfect | the King | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | imprison | past · passive | men | the King's son in law | the East | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in east=Destination |
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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