The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 30
Then the runner got a pitcher, and the King’s daughter another, and they began to run at the same time; but in a moment, when the King’s daughter was only just a little way off, no spectator could see the runner, and it seemed as if the wind had whistled past.
Who acts: runner, servant, daughter, spectator, it · What happens: get, begin, run, be, see, seem · To what, where: pitcher, little way, runner, wind
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (runner, servant, daughter, spectator), 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 | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 runner | det |
| 3 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pitcher | det |
| 6 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 daughter | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 daughter | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 daughter | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 run | mark |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 run | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 see | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 see | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 moment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 way | punct |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 way | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 King | case |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 way | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 way | cop |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 way | advmod |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 way | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 way | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 way | amod |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moment | appos |
| 41 | off | off | ADV | _ | 40 way | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moment | punct |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 spectator | det |
| 44 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 see | aux |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 runner | det |
| 48 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 seemed | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 seemed | cc |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 seemed | nsubj |
| 52 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 58 whistled | mark |
| 54 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 58 whistled | mark |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 wind | det |
| 56 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 whistled | nsubj:pass |
| 57 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 whistled | aux |
| 58 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 seemed | xcomp |
| 59 | past | past | ADV | _ | 58 whistled | advmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the runner | a pitcher | then | the King's daughter obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | begin | past | servant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | servant not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the King's daughter | a little way | off property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | see | could | no spectator | the runner | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runner=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | whistle past a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the wind | past property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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