The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 52
He pulled several of the beautiful apples and put them in his pocket; then he entered the castle.
Who acts: bird · What happens: pull, put, enter · To what, where: several, apples, pocket, castle
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 (bird), 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 | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 apples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apples | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apples | amod |
| 7 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 several | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pulled | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl | ||
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 entered | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 entered | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 entered | nsubj |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | bird | several | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | bird not said here | apples = apple | bird's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 3 | enter | past | bird | the castle | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination |
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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