The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 83
So saying, he opened his sack and gave her the bad one.
Who acts: Countryman · What happens: say, open, give · To what, where: sack, bad one, witch · 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 (Countryman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 opened | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Countryman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | past | Countryman | Countryman's sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Countryman not said here | the bad one | witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=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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