The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 6
His new overlord would demand the service of one of his sons.
Who acts: new overlord · What happens: demand · To what, where: service
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new overlord), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 overlord | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 overlord | amod |
| 3 | overlord | overlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demand | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 demand | aux |
| 5 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 service | det |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demand | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 service | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sons | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 demand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | would | king's new overlord | the service of one of king's sons | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Precondition |
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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