The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 58
He rose up and followed the direction of the noise.
Who acts: BOY · What happens: rise up, follow · To what, where: direction
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rose | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 followed | cc |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 direction | det |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 noise | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | BOY | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | BOY not said here | the direction of the noise | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
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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