The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 63
But the Hunter had listened to their talk, and as soon as they had gone he rose and climbed to the summit.
Who acts: Hunter, clouds · What happens: listen, go, rise, climb, talk · To what, where: summit
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, clouds), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hunter | det |
| 3 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | aux |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 talk | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 talk | nmod:poss |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gone | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 gone | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 listened | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 climbed | cc |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rose | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 summit | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 summit | det |
| 23 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 climbed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect | the Hunter | to clouds's talk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to talk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | clouds = cloud | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | Hunter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | climb | past | Hunter not said here | the summit | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to summit=Destination | ||||
| 5 | talk | clouds = cloud | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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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