The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 62
The Herd-boy took off his shirt, and bound up the Giant’s wounded foot with it.
Who acts: Herd boy · What happens: take off, bind up · To what, where: shirt, Giant wounded foot
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Herd | punct |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bound | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bound | cc |
| 11 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 bound | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 14 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foot | amod |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Giant | case |
| 16 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foot | amod |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bound | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 foot | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | the Herd boy | BOY's shirt | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bind up | participle | the Herd boy not said here | the Giant wounded foot | with foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with it=Co-Patient |
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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