The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 18
But when he lifted up his pillow, there sparkled the gold piece, and the next morning he found another, and so on every time he got up.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: lift up, sparkle, find, get up · To what, where: pillow, gold piece, another
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Hunter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sparkled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sparkled | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 sparkled | expl |
| 10 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | compound |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sparkled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sparkled | parataxis |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 got | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 got | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Hunter | Hunter's pillow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | the gold piece | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Hunter | another | morning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic | |||
| 4 | get up | past | Hunter | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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