The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 35
Having told the Prince all this, the Fairy went out in hopes of seeing the parrot, and soon returned with the bird in her hand.
Who acts: Fairy, hopes · What happens: have, tell, go out, see, return · To what, where: this, Prince, hopes, parrot, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, hopes), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 this | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hopes | case |
| 13 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | mark |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hopes | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 parrot | det |
| 17 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 returned | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 returned | advmod |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 bird | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 returned | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Fairy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | the Fairy not said here | this | the Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient this=Topic | |||
| 3 | go out | past | the Fairy | hopes | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | hopes not said here | the parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | return | participle | the Fairy not said here | Fairy's hand | with the bird; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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