The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 200
When he reached home he found that the old King had died that morning, so that he was now raised to the throne.
Who acts: magician, old King · What happens: reach, find, die, raise · To what, where: magician, throne
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 (magician, old King), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 King | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | aux |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 found | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 morning | mark |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 raised | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 raised | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 raised | aux:pass |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 raised | advmod |
| 21 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 throne | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 throne | det |
| 24 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 raised | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | magician | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | magician | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | past · perfect | the old King | morning | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | raise | past · passive | magician | the throne | now | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to throne=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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