The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 90
She directed him to do just as he had done before, with only this difference, that instead of going to the stable which had been the ruin of his hopes, he was to enter right into the castle itself, and to glide as fast as he could down the passages till he came to a room filled with perfume, where he would find a beautiful maiden asleep on a bed.
Who acts: heart, Saphir, that, stable · What happens: direct, do, go, be, glide, down · To what, where: Saphir, stable, ruin, passages, room, beautiful maiden asleep bed
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 (heart, Saphir, that, stable), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 directed | nsubj |
| 2 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 directed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 directed | xcomp |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 do | advcl |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 difference | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 difference | case |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 difference | advmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 difference | det |
| 16 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 going | nsubj |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 going | mark |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 directed | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 stable | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stable | det |
| 24 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 ruin | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ruin | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 ruin | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ruin | det |
| 29 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stable | acl:relcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hopes | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 ruin | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 enter | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 enter | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 enter | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 enter | mark |
| 37 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 directed | parataxis |
| 38 | right | right | ADV | _ | 41 castle | advmod |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 castle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 castle | det |
| 41 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enter | obj |
| 42 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 41 castle | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 glide | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 glide | cc |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 glide | mark |
| 46 | glide | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 enter | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 fast | advmod |
| 48 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 glide | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 down | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 down | nsubj |
| 51 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 down | aux |
| 52 | down | down | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 glide | advcl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 passages | det |
| 54 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 down | obj |
| 55 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 57 came | mark |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 came | nsubj |
| 57 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 down | advcl |
| 58 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 room | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 room | det |
| 60 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 came | obl |
| 61 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 room | acl |
| 62 | with | with | ADP | _ | 63 perfume | case |
| 63 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 filled | obl |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 find | punct |
| 65 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 68 find | advmod |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 find | nsubj |
| 67 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 68 find | aux |
| 68 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 perfume | acl:relcl |
| 69 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 75 bed | det |
| 70 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 75 bed | amod |
| 71 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 75 bed | amod |
| 72 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 75 bed | amod |
| 73 | on | on | ADP | _ | 75 bed | case |
| 74 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 75 bed | det |
| 75 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 find | obj |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 directed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | past | heart | Saphir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Saphir | with this difference; before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | that | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | the stable | the ruin | of Saphir's hopes | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | Saphir | enter property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | glide | to-infinitive | Saphir not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | down | could | Saphir | the passages | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient | ||||
| 9 | come | past | Saphir | a room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | fill | participle | a room not said here | with perfume | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with perfume=Instrument | ||||
| 11 | find | would | Saphir | a beautiful maiden asleep bed | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic | ||||
| 12 | hope | Saphir | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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