The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 11

He stopped and looked at the young man, who nodded his head, and then the wizard continued, ‘To-morrow night you must go to the place where, once in seven years, the serpent-king gives a great feast to his whole court.

Who acts: man, young man, wizard, you, serpent king · What happens: stop, look, nod, continue, go, give · To what, where: head, place, great feast, whole court

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young man, wizard, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nodded	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 nodded	nsubj
11	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nodded	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 continued	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 continued	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 continued	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wizard	det
18	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 continued	nsubj
19	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
22	To	to	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 To	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	compound
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 continued	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 place	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 place	det
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 place	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 once	punct
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 go	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 years	case
36	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 once	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gives	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 king	det
40	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 king	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 serpent	punct
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gives	nsubj
43	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	parataxis
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 feast	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 feast	amod
46	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gives	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	50 court	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 court	nmod:poss
49	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 court	amod
50	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gives	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	man						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	past	man not said here					at the young man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme
3	nod	past	the young man	man's head					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	continue	past	the wizard				then		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go	must	you			the place	night	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
6	give	present	the serpent king	a great feast	man's whole court				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to court=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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