The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 92
When he came there he saw the two donkeys running about in the courtyard, but the salad was lying on the ground.
Who acts: Hunter, two donkeys, salad · What happens: come, see, run about, lie · To what, where: two donkeys, courtyard, ground
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, two donkeys, salad), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 donkeys | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 donkeys | nummod |
| 9 | donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 donkeys | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 courtyard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 courtyard | det |
| 14 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lying | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lying | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 salad | det |
| 18 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lying | aux |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hunter | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hunter | the two donkeys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donkey=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run about | gerund | the two donkeys not said here | the courtyard | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | the salad | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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