The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 194
The King now sent messengers to the East to look for his son-in-law, and they by good luck met with the old magician who had interpreted the signs on King Solomon’s ring, and thus was possessed of more wisdom than anyone else in the world.
Who acts: King, old magician, anyone · What happens: send, look, meet, interpret, possess · To what, where: messengers, East, good luck, signs, 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 (King, old magician, anyone), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 they | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 they | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 luck | case |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 luck | amod |
| 23 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 they | nmod |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 luck | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 magician | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 magician | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 magician | amod |
| 28 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 met | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 interpreted | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 interpreted | aux |
| 31 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 magician | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 signs | det |
| 33 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 interpreted | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 ring | case |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Solomon | compound |
| 36 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 ring | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Solomon | case |
| 38 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 interpreted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 possessed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 possessed | cc |
| 41 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 43 possessed | advmod |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 possessed | aux:pass |
| 43 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 luck | acl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 wisdom | case |
| 45 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 wisdom | amod |
| 46 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 possessed | obl |
| 47 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 anyone | case |
| 48 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 possessed | obl:agent |
| 49 | else | else | ADV | _ | 48 anyone | advmod |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 world | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 anyone | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | messengers | the East | now | messengers = messenger obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to east=Destination | |
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the King not said here | for magician's son in law | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | participle | good luck not said here | with the old magician | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with magician=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | interpret | past · perfect | the old magician | the signs | King Solomon's ring | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | |||
| 5 | possess | past · passive | anyone | good luck not said here | of more wisdom; thus property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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