The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 21
And with that he prepared food for the journey, a string of deer’s flesh for her to carry, and one for himself; and so they started.
Who acts: husband, woman, man · What happens: prepare, carry, start · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, woman, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prepared | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 prepared | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 prepared | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 5 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 string | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 string | det |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journey | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flesh | case |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 deer | case |
| 16 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 string | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 flesh | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 one | cc |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 prepared | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 started | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 started | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 started | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 started | nsubj |
| 30 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | husband | food | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product for journey=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | woman | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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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