The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 4
The Hunter was sorry for the poor old woman, and he felt in his pocket and gave her all he could spare.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: be, feel, give, spare · To what, where: all, woman
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hunter | det |
| 2 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl | ||
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spare | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 spare | aux |
| 23 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Hunter | for the poor old woman; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Hunter | in Hunter's pocket | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Hunter not said here | all | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient all=Theme | |||
| 4 | spare | could | Hunter | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
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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