The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 46
Then they all fell into each other’s arms, till the fairy mounted her chariot, placed Aglantine by her side, and Saphir and Serpentine on the front seat.
Who acts: fairies, fairy · What happens: fall, mount, place · To what, where: arms, chariot
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 (fairies, fairy), 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 | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 other | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 mounted | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fairy | det |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | nsubj |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mounted | conj |
| 19 | Aglantine | Aglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Saphir | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Saphir | cc |
| 25 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Serpentine | cc |
| 27 | Serpentine | Serpentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Saphir | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 seat | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seat | det |
| 30 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seat | amod |
| 31 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Saphir | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | fairies = fairy | each other's arms | then | Saphir on the front seat and Serpentine obl | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient arm=Result | ||
| 2 | mount | past | the fairy | Serpentine's chariot | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | the fairy not said here | by Serpentine's side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination |
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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