The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 104

Then she peeled it, ate it, and threw the rind out of the window, and it so happened that a mare that was running loose in the court below ate up the rind.

Who acts: Queen, it, mare, court · What happens: peel, eat, throw, happen, run, eat up · To what, where: apple, rind, window, court

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, it, mare, court), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 peeled	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 peeled	nsubj
3	peeled	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 peeled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peeled	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peeled	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rind	det
12	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 window	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happened	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 happened	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 happened	nsubj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 happened	advmod
21	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peeled	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 running	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mare	det
24	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 running	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 running	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 running	aux
27	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 happened	advcl
28	loose	loose	ADV	_	27 running	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 court	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 court	det
31	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 running	obl
32	below	below	ADV	_	33 ate	advmod
33	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 court	acl:relcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 ate	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rind	det
36	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ate	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 peeled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peel	past	Queen	apple		then		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	eat	past	Queen not said here	apple				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	throw	past	Queen not said here	the rind	the window			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rind=Theme out window=Destination
4	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	past · progressive	a mare		the court		loose property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Trajectory
6	eat up	past	the court not said here	the rind			below property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=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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