The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 24
Then the old woman went back to the King and said to him, ‘Your Majesty’s orders have been fulfilled.’
Who acts: old woman, Majesty · What happens: go back, say, fulfil, order · To what, where: King, orders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Majesty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fulfilled | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fulfilled | punct |
| 16 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 orders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Majesty | case |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fulfilled | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 22 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the old woman | then | to the King result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | present · perfect · passive | Your Majesty's orders | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | order | Your Majesty | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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