The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 14
Then the cord is pulled and they lie where they fall, till they are buried by the first passer by.
Who acts: places, first passer · What happens: pull, lie, fall, bury · To what, where: cord, places
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (places, first passer), 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 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cord | det |
| 3 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | aux:pass |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lie | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lie | nsubj |
| 8 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fall | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lie | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buried | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 buried | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fall | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 passer | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 passer | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 passer | amod |
| 20 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 buried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present · passive | the cord | then | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | places = place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | present | places = place | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury | present · passive | the first passer | places = place | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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