The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 65
The men unbuckled their knapsacks and filled them with those precious things.
Who acts: men · What happens: unbuckle, fill · To what, where: knapsacks, men
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 (men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unbuckled | nsubj |
| 3 | unbuckled | unbuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knapsacks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knapsacks | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unbuckled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unbuckled | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unbuckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unbuckle | past | the men | men's knapsacks | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the men not said here | men = man | with that precious things | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with thing=Instrument |
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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