The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 68
The wounded Giant remained behind to the last and called out, ‘Herd-boy, where are you?’
Who acts: you · What happens: remain, call out, be · To what, where: wounded, last, Herd boy
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 (you), 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 remained | det |
| 2 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | amod |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 last | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 14 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Herd | punct |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 where | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 boy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 where | cop |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 where | nsubj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle · passive | wounded | the last | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | you | Herd boy not said here | where property | tree rules |
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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