The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 44
In a little while the bird flew into the room, still with his eyes fixed on the King, and at every glance the strength of the sick man became greater, till he was once more as well as he used to be before the Queen died.
Who acts: bird, strength, Queen · What happens: fly, fix, become, be · To what, where: little, eyes, glance
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, strength, Queen), 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 | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 flew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 eyes | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | obl |
| 16 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eyes | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fixed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 became | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 glance | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 glance | det |
| 24 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 became | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 strength | det |
| 26 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 became | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strength | nmod |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 32 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 became | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 used | punct |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 43 used | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 used | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 used | cop |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 as | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 43 used | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 as | fixed |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 used | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 used | nsubj |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 became | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 died | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 died | cop |
| 46 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 49 died | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Queen | det |
| 48 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 died | nsubj |
| 49 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 used | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the bird | a little | into the room; with bird's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in little=Location | |||
| 2 | fix | participle | bird's eyes not said here | on the King | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the strength of the sick man | every glance | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | strength | use property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the Queen | die property | tree rules |
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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