The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 34
Then he took the goblet, and when he had swallowed the drink the bird-heart came out of his mouth.
Who acts: Hunter, bird heart · What happens: take, swallow, come out · To what, where: goblet, Hunter, mouth
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, bird heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblet | det |
| 5 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swallowed | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 swallowed | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swallowed | aux |
| 11 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swallowed | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drink | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hunter | the goblet | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | |||
| 2 | swallow | past · perfect · passive | Hunter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the bird heart | Hunter's mouth | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result |
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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