The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 104
So he left them, and took his wife and three children, and they journeyed on until they found a spot near to a clear stream, where they began to cut down trees, and to make ready their wigwam.
Who acts: hunter, friends · What happens: leave, take, journey on, find, begin, cut down · To what, where: friends, wife, spot, trees, wigwam
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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, friends), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 children | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 children | nummod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 journeyed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 journeyed | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 journeyed | nsubj |
| 16 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 journeyed | compound:prt |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 found | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 journeyed | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | near | near | ADV | _ | 27 stream | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 stream | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stream | det |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stream | amod |
| 27 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 began | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stream | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 cut | mark |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 began | xcomp |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 cut | compound:prt |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cut | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | parataxis |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 make | xcomp |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | hunter | friends = friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | hunter not said here | hunter's wife and three children | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 3 | journey on | past | friends = friend | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | friends = friend | a spot | to a clear stream | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic | |||
| 5 | begin | past | friends = friend | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | cut down | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | friends's wigwam | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wigwam=Product |
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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