The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 85
Then in despair he bit the loaf, and what was his astonishment when a piece of gold fell out of his mouth and rolled at his feet.
Who acts: lad, piece · What happens: bite, be, fall, roll · To what, where: loaf, despair, astonishment, mouth, feet
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 (lad, piece), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bit | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 despair | case |
| 3 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loaf | det |
| 7 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 astonishment | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 astonishment | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 astonishment | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 astonishment | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 fell | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bit | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rolled | cc |
| 25 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rolled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | lad | the loaf | despair | then | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient in despair=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | lad's astonishment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | a piece of gold | lad's mouth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | a piece of gold not said here | lad's feet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory |
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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