The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 9
And the whole Court went out to see the wonder, and were no less astonished than they had been the first time.
Who acts: whole Court, fields · What happens: go out, see, be · To what, where: wonder
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 (whole Court, fields), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Court | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Court | amod |
| 4 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wonder | det |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 astonished | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 astonished | cop |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 less | advmod |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 astonished | advmod |
| 16 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 time | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 time | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 astonished | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the whole Court | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the whole Court not said here | the wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the whole Court not said here | astonished, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | fields = field | than the first time | 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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