The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 43
Ferko continued his way till he came to a ploughed field.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: continue, come, plough · To what, where: way, ploughed field
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), 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 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 10 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 field | amod |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Ferko | Ferko's way | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Ferko | a ploughed field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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