The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 32
The chief jumped straight into the canoe, and seizing the paddles pushed off from the shore, when to his joy and wonder he saw following him in another canoe exactly like his own the maiden for whose sake he had made this long journey.
Who acts: chief, seizing, thought · What happens: jump, seize, push off, see, follow, make · To what, where: canoe, paddles, thought, long journey
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, seizing, thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 canoe | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 canoe | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 canoe | det |
| 7 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pushed | cc |
| 10 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 pushed | csubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 paddles | det |
| 12 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seizing | obj |
| 13 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 pushed | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 saw | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 joy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wonder | cc |
| 24 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 joy | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 27 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 saw | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 following | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 canoe | case |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 canoe | det |
| 31 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 following | obl |
| 32 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 35 own | advmod |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 own | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 own | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 following | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 maiden | det |
| 37 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 own | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 sake | case |
| 39 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 40 sake | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 maiden | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 made | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 made | aux |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 sake | acl:relcl |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 journey | det |
| 45 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 journey | amod |
| 46 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 made | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the chief | the canoe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the paddles | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push off | past | seizing | from the shore | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from shore=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | past | thought | to thought's joy and wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | thought not said here | thought | another canoe | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in canoe=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | make | past · perfect | thought | this long journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | ||||
| 7 | joy | thought | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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