The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 78
No sooner had he done so than the wounded Giant limped up to him and whispered softly, ‘Herd-boy, where are you?’
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: do, limp up, whisper, be · To what, where: youth, 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 (youth, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 Giant | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 Giant | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Giant | det |
| 9 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Giant | amod |
| 10 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 done | parataxis |
| 11 | limped | limp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Giant | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 limped | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 limped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whispered | cc |
| 16 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 17 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 16 whispered | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boy | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 boy | punct |
| 20 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boy | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Herd | punct |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whispered | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 where | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 boy | acl:relcl |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 where | cop |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 where | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | youth | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | limp up | participle | youth not said here | youth | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | youth not said here | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | 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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