The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 53
As soon as he was sound asleep she unfastened the cloak from his shoulders, threw it on her own, left the granite and stones, and wished herself home again.
Who acts: Hunter, witch · What happens: be, unfasten, throw, leave, wish · To what, where: cloak, own, granite, witch
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, witch), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 unfastened | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 asleep | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | cop |
| 6 | sound | sound | ADV | _ | 7 asleep | advmod |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | advcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unfastened | nsubj |
| 9 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloak | det |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unfastened | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 shoulders | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 unfastened | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unfastened | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 threw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 threw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 granite | det |
| 24 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stones | cc |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 granite | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wished | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wished | cc |
| 29 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unfastened | conj |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 wished | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 wished | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 wished | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 unfastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hunter | asleep, sound property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unfasten | past | witch | the cloak | from Hunter's shoulders; soon property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient from shoulder=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | throw | past | cloak | witch's own | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on own=Destination | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the granite and stones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granite=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | witch not said here | witch | again | home property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
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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