The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 89
Two lions walked with him, fastened to his side by the two ends of his long beard.
Who acts: Two lions · What happens: walk, fasten
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two lions), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lions | nummod |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fastened | punct |
| 7 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 ends | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ends | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ends | nummod |
| 14 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fastened | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beard | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beard | nmod:poss |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beard | amod |
| 18 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ends | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Two lions | with Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Two lions not said here | by the two ends of Prince's long beard | to Prince's side | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to side=Co-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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