The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 82
The Herd-boy returned to his sheep, and took off the invisible belt which he hid carefully in his bag.
Who acts: Herd boy, invisible belt · What happens: return, take off, hide · To what, where: invisible belt, bag
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, invisible belt), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sheep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 belt | det |
| 14 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 belt | amod |
| 15 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hid | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hid | nsubj |
| 18 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 belt | acl:relcl |
| 19 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 18 hid | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bag | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bag | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Herd boy | to BOY's sheep result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result | ||||
| 2 | take off | past | the Herd boy not said here | the invisible belt | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | the invisible belt | BOY's bag | carefully property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bag=Location |
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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