The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 90
Then thought the Hunter, ‘The cabbage must have already begun to work.’
What happens: think, begin, work · To what, where: Hunter, cabbage
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: 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 | 2 thought | advmod |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hunter | det |
| 4 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begun | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 begun | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cabbage | det |
| 8 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 begun | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begun | aux |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 begun | advmod |
| 12 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begun | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Hunter | then | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hunter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | must · perfect · passive | the cabbage | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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