The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 63
He was too tired to go any farther, when happily he discovered a little way off a bubbling fountain of the clearest water.
Who acts: bird · What happens: be, go, discover, bubble · To what, where: little way
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tired | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 farther | advmod |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discovered | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 happily | advmod |
| 11 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 13 discovered | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discovered | nsubj |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 fountain | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fountain | det |
| 19 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fountain | amod |
| 20 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 23 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fountain | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bird | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | bird not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | bird | a little way | off a bubbling fountain of the clearest water; happily property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 4 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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