The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 101
So the Herd-boy went back to his hut, and taking his loaf and belt with him, he went to the nearest town.
Who acts: Herd boy, BOY · What happens: go back, take, go · To what, where: loaf, nearest town
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herd boy, BOY), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 3 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Herd | punct |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hut | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taking | cc |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 loaf | nmod:poss |
| 15 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 belt | cc |
| 17 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loaf | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the Herd boy | to BOY's hut result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the Herd boy not said here | BOY's loaf and belt | with BOY | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | BOY | the nearest town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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