The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 93
Then the ship’s crew returned home, and the same thing happened yearly until many years had passed.
Who acts: crew, same thing · What happens: return, happen, pass · To what, where: many years
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 (crew, same thing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crew | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 ship | case |
| 5 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happened | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 14 | yearly | yearly | ADV | _ | 13 happened | advmod |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 passed | mark |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 years | amod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 happened | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the ship's crew | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past | the same thing | yearly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | many years | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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