The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 36
The owner of it was none other than the kind-hearted gaunt grey beggar who had given the Prince the bag of bread-crumbs and the hare.
Who acts: owner, hearted gaunt grey beggar · What happens: be, give · To what, where: none, bag, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, hearted gaunt grey beggar), 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 owner | det |
| 2 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 none | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 owner | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 none | cop |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 none | amod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 beggar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beggar | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hearted | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 kind | punct |
| 12 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beggar | amod |
| 13 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beggar | amod |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beggar | amod |
| 15 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 other | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 given | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 beggar | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bag | det |
| 22 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 crumbs | case |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crumbs | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bread | punct |
| 26 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bag | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hare | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hare | det |
| 29 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crumbs | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 none | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the owner of distance | none | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | the hearted gaunt grey beggar | the bag of bread crumbs and the hare | the Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient bag=Theme |
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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