The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 75
Then he put the heads in his pockets, climbed the wall, and started off to seek the castle of his love.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: put, climb, start off, seek, love · To what, where: heads, pockets, wall, castle
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heads | det |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pockets | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl | |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 climbed | punct |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 started | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 started | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 love | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 love | nmod:poss |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 castle | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Hunter | the heads | Hunter's pockets | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in pocket=Destination | ||
| 2 | climb | past | Hunter not said here | the wall | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start off | past | Hunter not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | Hunter not said here | the castle of Hunter's love | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | Hunter | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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