The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 96
Then she ate, and, as the others had done, she at once lost her human form, and ran as a donkey into the yard.
Who acts: two, others · What happens: eat, do, lose, run, form · To what, where: human form
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 (two, others), 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 ate | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 done | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 others | det |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ate | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 lost | advmod |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 form | nmod:poss |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 form | amod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 donkey | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 donkey | det |
| 25 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 yard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 yard | det |
| 28 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | two | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | the others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | two | two's human form | once property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | run | past | two not said here | as a donkey; into the yard result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into yard=Result | ||||
| 5 | form | two | nom form «communication 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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