The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 76
The men did as the Lake advised them, and waited for a time.
Who acts: men, Lake · What happens: do, advise, wait · To what, where: 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, Lake), 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 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 advised | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lake | det |
| 6 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 advised | nsubj |
| 7 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 advised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waited | cc |
| 11 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waited | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the men | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the Lake | men = man | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the men not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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