The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 32
The moment he was set free, he snatched up his stone, and became invisible.
Who acts: moment · What happens: set, snatch up, become · To what, where: Prince, stone
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 (moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snatched | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 moment | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 snatched | nsubj |
| 9 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 snatched | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stone | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snatched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 snatched | conj |
| 16 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the moment not said here | Prince | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | snatch up | past | the moment | Prince's stone | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the moment not said here | invisible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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