The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 41
Iwanich thanked the gaunt grey beggar for his information, and went on his way.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: thank, go, inform · To what, where: gaunt grey beggar, way
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 (Iwanich), 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beggar | det |
| 4 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beggar | amod |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beggar | amod |
| 6 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 information | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 information | nmod:poss |
| 9 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beggar | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Iwanich | the gaunt grey beggar | for Iwanich's information | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme for information=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go | past | Iwanich not said here | Iwanich's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 3 | inform | Iwanich | nom information «communication intransitive»: 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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