The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 58
The giants came up, and the first pushed him with his foot, and said, ‘What sort of an earthworm is that?’
Who acts: giants, first · What happens: come up, push, say, be, sort · To what, where: Hunter, that, earthworm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (giants, first), 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 giants | det |
| 2 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pushed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 pushed | nsubj |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sort | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sort | punct |
| 19 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 20 sort | det |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 earthworm | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 earthworm | det |
| 23 | earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sort | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 that | cop |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 sort | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the giants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push | past | the first | Hunter | with Hunter's foot | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sort | a earthworm | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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