The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 37
Ferko himself returned to the fields, and mounting on the wolf’s back he rode to the wood close by.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: return, mount, ride · To what, where: back, wood
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 (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 | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Ferko | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 9 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 rode | csubj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 wolf | case |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounting | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wood | amod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 close | fixed |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Ferko Ferko | to the fields result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to field=Result | ||||
| 2 | mount | gerund | the wolf's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | Ferko | the wood | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to wood=Trajectory |
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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