The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 77
At noon the earth began to quake, and opened in many places, and out of the openings appeared lions, tigers, and other wild beasts, which surrounded the castle, and thousands and thousands of beasts came out of the castle following their king, the Seven-headed Serpent.
Who acts: earth, openings, thousands, castle · What happens: begin, quake, open, appear, surround, come out · To what, where: many places, lions, other wild beasts, castle, king
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 (earth, openings, thousands, castle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earth | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 quake | mark |
| 7 | quake | quake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 openings | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 openings | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 openings | det |
| 19 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 21 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tigers | punct |
| 23 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lions | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beasts | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 beasts | cc |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beasts | amod |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beasts | amod |
| 28 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 surrounded | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 beasts | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 surrounded | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 came | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 came | cc |
| 36 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 came | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thousands | cc |
| 38 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thousands | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 beasts | case |
| 40 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thousands | nmod |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 castle | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 castle | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 castle | det |
| 45 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obl |
| 46 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 castle | acl |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 king | nmod:poss |
| 48 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 following | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Serpent | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Serpent | det |
| 51 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 headed | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 Seven | punct |
| 53 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Serpent | amod |
| 54 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 king | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the earth | noon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | quake | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | open | past | many places | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | the openings | lions and tigers | other wild beasts obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme | |||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | other wild beasts | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come out | past | thousands and thousands of beasts | the castle | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient castle=Result | ||||
| 7 | follow | gerund | the castle not said here | thousands's king and the headed Serpent | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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