The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 50
In spite of the opposition he met with, he rode away, followed by his household, trusting to chance to help him.
Who acts: bird · What happens: meet, ride away, follow, trust, help, spite · To what, where: opposition, spite, chance, 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), 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 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 opposition | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 opposition | det |
| 5 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opposition | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 met | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rode | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 household | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 household | nmod:poss |
| 17 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obl:agent |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trusting | punct |
| 19 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 rode | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 chance | mark |
| 21 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trusting | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 chance | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | bird | the opposition not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | bird | spite of the opposition | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | follow | participle | bird not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | trust | gerund | bird not said here | chance | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | bird not said here | chance not said here | bird | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | spite | the opposition | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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