The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 94
But one night they determined to watch, and see from their hiding place who the bringer of the sack of gold really was.
Who acts: parents · What happens: determine, watch, see · To what, where: hiding place
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 (parents), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 determined | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 watch | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | compound |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 was | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bringer | det |
| 17 | bringer | bringer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sack | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bringer | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sack | nmod |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 was | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | parents = parent | night | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | parents = parent not said here | parents's hiding place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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