The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 69
So seven thousand waggons of the gold of the whole kingdom were driven up; these the strong man shoved into the sack, oxen and all.
What happens: drive up, shove · To what, where: thousand waggons, strong man, sack
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 driven | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 waggons | nummod |
| 4 | waggons | waggon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waggons | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kingdom | amod |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | aux:pass |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 driven | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 man | det |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 20 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 sack | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sack | det |
| 23 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoved | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 oxen | punct |
| 25 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 man | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 all | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 man | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive up | past · passive | thousand waggons of the gold of the whole kingdom | this strong man and oxen obl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shove | participle | this strong man and oxen not said here | the sack | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into sack=Trajectory |
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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