The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 98

He tied them all three with a rope, and drove them away till he came to a mill.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: tie, drive away, come · To what, where: yards, mill

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tied	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rope	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drove	cc
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drove	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 drove	advmod
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drove	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 mill	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mill	det
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past	Hunter	yards = yard		with a rope	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient three=Result
2	drive away	past	Hunter not said here	yards = yard		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
3	come	past	Hunter		a mill		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_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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