The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 67
The King, who had given up all hopes of his son’s recovery, replied: ‘Only restore him to life and health and he shall be yours.
Who acts: King, recovery, son · What happens: give up, reply, restore, be, hope, recover · To what, where: King, hopes, life, yours
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, recovery, son), 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 | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 given | compound:prt |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 hopes | det |
| 9 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 recovery | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 son | case |
| 14 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hopes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 restore | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 restore | punct |
| 19 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 20 restore | advmod |
| 20 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 restore | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restore | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 health | cc |
| 25 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 life | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 yours | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 yours | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 yours | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 yours | cop |
| 30 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 restore | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect · passive | the King | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | all hopes of King's son's recovery | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | restore | infinitive | King | life and health | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | shall | King | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hope | King's son's recovery | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | recover | King's son | nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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