The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 38
No sooner had he done so than his legs felt as sound and strong as they had been before, and Ferko thanked the kind fate that had led him to the hill where he had overheard the ravens’ conversation.
Who acts: Ferko, legs, kind fate, ravens · What happens: do, feel, be, thank, lead, overhear · To what, where: kind fate, Ferko, hill, conversation
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 (Ferko, legs, kind fate, ravens), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 sound | case |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 strong | cc |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 before | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 before | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 before | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 before | cop |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 strong | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thanked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thanked | cc |
| 22 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 thanked | nsubj |
| 23 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fate | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fate | amod |
| 26 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thanked | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 led | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 led | aux |
| 29 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 fate | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 led | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 hill | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hill | det |
| 33 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 led | obl |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 overheard | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 overheard | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 overheard | aux |
| 37 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 hill | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ravens | det |
| 39 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 39 ravens | case |
| 41 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 overheard | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Ferko | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Ferko's legs | as sound | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | legs = leg | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | Ferko | the kind fate | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | past · perfect | the kind fate | Ferko | the hill | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hill=Destination | |||
| 6 | overhear | past · perfect | Ferko | the ravens's conversation | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | converse | the ravens | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: 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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