The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 49
Then the boy saw that he was close to the apple-tree, and drawing a small knife from his belt, he cut off both the eagle’s feet.
Who acts: boy · What happens: see, be, draw, cut off · To what, where: small knife, belt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 close | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 close | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 close | cop |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 apple | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drawing | cc |
| 16 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 knife | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knife | amod |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 belt | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 belt | nmod:poss |
| 22 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cut | nsubj |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 cut | compound:prt |
| 27 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 31 feet | cc:preconj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eagle | det |
| 29 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 eagle | case |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the boy | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | boy | to the apple tree; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | the boy not said here | a small knife | boy's belt | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from belt=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | cut off | past | boy | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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