The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 17
Now as soon as the little boy had eaten all the food which his sister had left him, he went out into the woods, and gathered berries and dug up roots, and while the sun shone he was contented and had his fill.
Who acts: sister, boy, sun · What happens: eat, leave, go out, gather, dig up, shine · To what, where: food, boy, woods, berries, fill
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, boy, sun), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 eaten | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 eaten | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obl |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 food | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 left | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 food | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 woods | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woods | det |
| 25 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gathered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gathered | cc |
| 28 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 29 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gathered | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 roots | cc |
| 31 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 roots | amod |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 dug | compound:prt |
| 33 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 berries | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shone | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shone | cc |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 shone | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sun | det |
| 38 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shone | nsubj |
| 39 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | parataxis |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 contented | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 contented | aux:pass |
| 42 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 shone | ccomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 had | cc |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 shone | conj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 fill | nmod:poss |
| 46 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | all food | now | as the little boy; soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | boy's sister | all food | boy | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme which=Attribute | |||
| 3 | go out | past | boy | the woods | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | gather | past | boy not said here | berries and dug roots | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dig up | participle | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | shine | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | content | past · passive | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | have | past | the sun not said here | boy's fill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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