The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 18
After he had been overpowered by sleep, as on the former days, the mare and foal ran away and hid themselves in the royal hen house.
Who acts: sleep, mare · What happens: overpower, run away, hide · To what, where: Prince, mare, royal hen house
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, mare), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 overpowered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overpowered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overpowered | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 overpowered | aux:pass |
| 5 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ran | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overpowered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 overpowered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overpowered | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mare | det |
| 16 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 foal | cc |
| 18 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mare | conj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hid | cc |
| 22 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | conj |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 hid | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 26 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 27 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | compound |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overpower | past · perfect · passive | sleep | Prince | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run away | past | the mare and foal | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | the mare and foal not said here | mare | the royal hen house | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in house=Location |
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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