The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 33
Their words rejoiced Ferko’s heart, and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes.
Who acts: words, Ferko, evening, eyes · What happens: rejoice, wait, come, rub, word · To what, where: heart, precious dew, sightless eyes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Ferko, evening, eyes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Ferko | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waited | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 waited | nsubj |
| 10 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 11 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 10 waited | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waited | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rub | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rub | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 rub | aux |
| 19 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dew | det |
| 21 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dew | amod |
| 22 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rub | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sightless | sightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rub | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | eyes's words | Ferko's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Ferko | impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | should | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rub | could | Ferko | the precious dew | Ferko's sightless eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dew=Theme on eye=Destination | |||
| 5 | word | eyes = eye | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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