The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 86
No sooner, however, had she swallowed them than she lost human form, and ran into the courtyard in the shape of a donkey.
Who acts: witch · What happens: swallow, lose, run · To what, where: leaves, human form, courtyard
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 (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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 swallowed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sooner | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 sooner | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sooner | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallowed | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swallowed | nsubj |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swallowed | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallowed | advcl |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallowed | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 courtyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 courtyard | det |
| 20 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shape | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shape | det |
| 23 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 donkey | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 donkey | det |
| 26 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shape | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | witch | leaves = leaf | soon property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | lose | past | witch | human form | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run | past | witch not said here | into the courtyard result; in the shape of a donkey | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Result |
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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