The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 34
In the meantime the King’s daughter, who could also run well, as well as an ordinary man could, reached the stream, and hastened back with her pitcher full of water.
What happens: run, reach, hasten back · To what, where: meantime, stream
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 run | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reached | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 could | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reached | aux |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 could | punct |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stream | det |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hastened | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hastened | cc |
| 28 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 reached | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 hastened | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 pitcher | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hastened | obl |
| 33 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pitcher | amod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 full | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | could | the meantime the King's daughter | well property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | reach | could | the stream | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten back | participle | with horse's pitcher | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with pitcher=Eventuality |
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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