The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 4
He soon finished the skinning, and went to the water to wash the blood off his hands.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: finish, skin, go, wash · To what, where: water, blood, hands
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 finished | advmod |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skinning | det |
| 5 | skinning | skin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 finished | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wash | mark |
| 13 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wash | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wash | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | hunter | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | skin | gerund | hunter not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | hunter not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | wash | to-infinitive | hunter not said here | the blood | hunter's hands | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme off hand=Source |
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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