The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 20
One day all the hyaenas that remained alive went out very early into the fields, leaving only one little daughter at home.
Who acts: hyaenas · What happens: remain, go out, leave · To what, where: fields, one little daughter, home
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hyaenas), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 hyaenas | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hyaenas | det |
| 5 | hyaenas | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hyaenas | acl:relcl |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remained | xcomp |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 early | advmod |
| 12 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 went | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 fields | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fields | det |
| 15 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaving | punct |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 daughter | nummod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaving | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaving | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | all hyaenas | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | all hyaenas | the fields | day | early, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | leave | gerund | all hyaenas not said here | one little daughter | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme at home=Location |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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