The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 95
On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while the Herd-boy was on his way to bring the beautiful girl another bag of gold.
Who acts: fearful storm, Herd boy, wind · What happens: come on, be, bring, storm · To what, where: way, bag, beautiful girl
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 (fearful storm, Herd boy, wind), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 6 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storm | amod |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 storm | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rain | cc |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wind | conj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 way | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 16 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boy | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Herd | punct |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | cop |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 bring | mark |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 girl | amod |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 bag | det |
| 29 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bag | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | a fearful storm of wind and rain | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Herd boy | BOY's way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | a fearful storm of wind and rain not said here | another bag of gold | the beautiful girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent girl=Destination bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | storm | wind and rain | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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