The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 26
And when he saw it was the doll he pushed it from him in his misery and rushed away to the camp, and told them all his story.
Who acts: journey, doll · What happens: see, be, push, rush away, tell · To what, where: doll, misery, story, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (journey, doll), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doll | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doll | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doll | det |
| 8 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushed | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doll | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushed | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 misery | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 misery | nmod:poss |
| 16 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rushed | cc |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 rushed | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 camp | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 camp | det |
| 22 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 story | det:predet |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 story | nmod:poss |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | journey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | doll | the doll | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push | past | journey | doll | journey's misery | from husband | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | rush away | past | journey not said here | to the camp result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to camp=Result | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | journey not said here | journey's story | arms = arm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
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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