The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 48
This matter being comfortably arranged, she started off her chariot.
Who acts: Serpentine · What happens: arrange, start off · To what, where: matter, 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 (Serpentine), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 5 arranged | advmod |
| 5 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 chariot | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | gerund · passive | this matter | comfortably property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | start off | past | Serpentine | Serpentine's chariot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Eventuality |
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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