The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 25
And after these words they each related all the strange things that had happened, and the more they talked the more they felt convinced of the truth of the images they had seen in their mirrors.
Who acts: words, strange things · What happens: relate, happen, talk, feel, see · To what, where: strange things, images, mirrors
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 (words, strange things), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 related | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 related | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 related | nsubj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | det |
| 7 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 things | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 things | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 related | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 talked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talked | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 more | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 talked | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talked | nsubj |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 related | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 more | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 felt | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | advcl |
| 25 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 truth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 truth | det |
| 28 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 convinced | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 images | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 images | det |
| 31 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 truth | nmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 seen | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 seen | aux |
| 34 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 images | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 mirrors | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mirrors | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 seen | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | words = word | all strange things | after this words | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | all strange things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | talk | past | words = word | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | words = word | convinced property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | words = word | the images not said here | words's mirrors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |
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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