The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 72
Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and everyone wondered how and where the stranger would build the wonderful palace.
Who acts: whole town, everyone, stranger · What happens: follow, be, wonder, build · To what, where: feet, wonderful palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whole town, everyone, stranger), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 feet | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feet | cop |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondered | cc |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 wondered | nsubj |
| 16 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feet | acl:relcl |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 build | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 build | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 build | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 build | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 build | aux |
| 23 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wondered | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 palace | amod |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 build | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the whole town | town's feet | day | early property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | everyone | town's feet not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build | would | the stranger | the wonderful palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product |
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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