The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 1
Then the youth mounted his horse, who carried him far away to a mountain which was hollow, for in its side was a great underground cavern.
Who acts: youth, mountain · What happens: mount, carry, be · To what, where: horse, mountain, great underground cavern
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, mountain), 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 | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hollow | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hollow | cop |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cavern | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cavern | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cavern | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cavern | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cavern | amod |
| 27 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cavern | amod |
| 28 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the youth | youth's horse | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past | horse | a mountain | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mountain=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | a mountain | hollow property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a great underground cavern | for mountain's side | 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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