The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 65
Iwanich bowed, loosened a scale from the body of the grateful beast, put it carefully away, and returned home.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: bow, loosen, put, return · To what, where: scale, body
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 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loosened | punct |
| 4 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scale | det |
| 6 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loosened | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loosened | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 12 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beast | amod |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 body | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loosened | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 returned | cc |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 returned | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Iwanich | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | loosen | past | Iwanich not said here | a scale | the body of the grateful beast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scale=Patient | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Iwanich not said here | scale | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 4 | return | past | Iwanich not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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