The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 8
When the King heard that he had to thank him alone for the victory, he raised him higher than anyone else in rank, gave him great treasures and made him the first in the kingdom.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, have, thank, raise, give, make · To what, where: King, youth, great treasures, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 thank | mark |
| 9 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thank | obj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 thank | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 victory | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 victory | det |
| 14 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thank | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 raised | nsubj |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 raised | obj |
| 19 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 anyone | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 higher | fixed |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 raised | obj |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 anyone | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 rank | case |
| 24 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anyone | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasures | amod |
| 29 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 first | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 made | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 kingdom | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kingdom | det |
| 37 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | for the victory; alone property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for victory=Attribute | |||
| 4 | raise | past | King | youth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme anyone=Destination | ||||
| 5 | give | past | King not said here | great treasures | youth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | past | King not said here | youth | the kingdom | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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