The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 60
They went straight on night and day, until they came to an island which was covered with large trees, and under every tree lay a lion.
Who acts: fleet · What happens: go, come, cover, lie · To what, where: island, lion, tree
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 (fleet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 day | cc |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 island | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trees | amod |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lay | cc |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lion | det |
| 28 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fleet | night | straight property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | fleet | a island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | a island | with large trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | fleet not said here | a lion | every tree | tree rules |
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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