The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 9
So the next morning he got up early, and put some food in his pouch and slung an extra skin over his shoulders, for he knew not how long his journey would take, nor what sort of country he would have to go through.
Who acts: light, journey, sort · What happens: get up, put, sling, not know, take, have · To what, where: food, pouch, extra skin, shoulders, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (light, journey, sort), 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 | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | advcl |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 food | det |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pouch | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slung | cc |
| 18 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 skin | det |
| 20 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 skin | amod |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slung | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 shoulders | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slung | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knew | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 knew | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slung | parataxis |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 knew | advmod |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 take | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 journey | nmod:poss |
| 33 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 knew | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 44 have | cc |
| 38 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 39 sort | det |
| 39 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 have | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sort | nmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 have | aux |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 go | mark |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 have | xcomp |
| 47 | through | through | ADV | _ | 46 go | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | light | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | light not said here | some food | light's pouch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in pouch=Destination | |||
| 3 | sling | past | light not said here | a extra skin | light's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | not know | past | light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take | would | light's journey | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | would | what sort of country | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go through | to-infinitive | what sort of country not said here | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | journey | light | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | sort | country | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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