The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 7
The day passed slowly, and with the evening came the little mouse and said, ‘Now there is not a single stalk of corn left in any field; they are all collected in one big heap on the hill out there.’
Who acts: day, little mouse · What happens: pass, come, say, not be, leave, collect · To what, where: single stalk, corn, field, fields, one big heap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (day, little mouse), 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 | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mouse | amod |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stalk | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 stalk | punct |
| 18 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stalk | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stalk | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stalk | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stalk | amod |
| 24 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 corn | case |
| 26 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stalk | nmod |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 corn | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 field | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 field | det |
| 30 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 collected | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 collected | aux:pass |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 collected | advmod |
| 35 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 heap | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 heap | nummod |
| 38 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 heap | amod |
| 39 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 collected | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 hill | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 hill | det |
| 42 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 collected | obl |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 44 there | advmod |
| 44 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 collected | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the day | slowly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the little mouse | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little mouse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a single stalk | of corn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | corn not said here | in any field result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in field=Result | ||||
| 6 | collect | present · passive | fields = field | one big heap; there | on the hill; all property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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