The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 6
He could not loosen it; so he buried them like the others and continued his path.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not loosen, bury, continue · To what, where: cord, men, path
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 (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loosen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosen | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 loosen | advmod |
| 4 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loosen | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 buried | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 buried | nsubj |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosen | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 buried | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buried | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 continued | cc |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 path | nmod:poss |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 continued | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not loosen | could | Prince | cord | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | Prince | men = man | like the others | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | continue | past | Prince not said here | Prince's path | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent path=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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