The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 74
Ferko spent the whole day in the meadows waiting the return of the bee.
Who acts: Ferko, bee · What happens: spend, wait, return · To what, where: meadows, return
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, bee), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meadows | det |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obl |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spent | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 return | det |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waiting | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bee | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bee | det |
| 14 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Ferko | the meadows | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Ferko not said here | the return of the bee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | the bee | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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