The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 33
The hunter determined to become a shepherd, and his wife too became a shepherdess.
Who acts: hunter, wife · What happens: determine, become · To what, where: shepherd, shepherdess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 become | mark |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shepherd | det |
| 7 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 became | advmod |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shepherdess | det |
| 15 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the hunter | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | the hunter not said here | a shepherd | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | hunter's wife | a shepherdess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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