The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 21
So he took leave of his parents, slung his hunting knapsack and his gun round him, and journeyed into the world.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: take, sling, journey · To what, where: leave, hunting knapsack, world
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slung | punct |
| 9 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knapsack | compound |
| 12 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slung | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gun | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gun | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knapsack | conj |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 journeyed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 journeyed | cc |
| 20 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 journeyed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hunter | leave of Hunter's parents | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sling | past | Hunter not said here | Hunter's hunting knapsack and Hunter's gun | round Hunter | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | |||
| 3 | journey | past | Hunter not said here | the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination |
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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