The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 22
Thus he freed his country from this terrible oppression.
Who acts: horse · What happens: free · To what, where: country, terrible oppression
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 (horse), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 freed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 freed | nsubj |
| 3 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 country | nmod:poss |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freed | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 oppression | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 oppression | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oppression | amod |
| 9 | oppression | oppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past | horse | horse's country | this terrible oppression | thus property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer country=Source |
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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