The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 43
In fact, he did nothing but gaze steadily at the King, and as he gazed, the King felt his strength come back to him.
Who acts: bird, King, strength · What happens: do, gaze, feel, come back · To what, where: nothing, fact, bird
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, King, strength), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gaze | cc |
| 8 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nothing | conj |
| 9 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 8 gaze | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gaze | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | nsubj |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazed | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | ccomp |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bird | nothing | fact | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | gaze | infinitive | bird not said here | at the King; steadily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | the King | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come back | present | bird's strength | bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=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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