The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 77
So he seized a loaf when no one was looking and stowed it away under his tunic.
Who acts: youth, one · What happens: seize, look, stow away · To what, where: loaf, tunic
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 (youth, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loaf | det |
| 5 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 seized | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stowed | cc |
| 12 | stowed | stow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stowed | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 stowed | advmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 tunic | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tunic | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stowed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | youth | a loaf | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stow away | past | youth not said here | loaf | youth's tunic | away property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under tunic=Destination |
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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