The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 146

Then, in the hour of his dire necessity, his old friends Schurka (the dog) and Waska (the cat) remembered how Martin had once saved them from a cruel death; and they took counsel together as to how they should help him.

Who acts: Schurka, dogs · What happens: remember, save, take, help · To what, where: old friends, Martin, cruel death, counsel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schurka, dogs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hour	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 necessity	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 necessity	nmod:poss
8	dire	dire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 necessity	amod
9	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hour	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friends	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friends	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friends	amod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hour	conj
14	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 remembered	nsubj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 dog	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Schurka	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 dog	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Waska	cc
20	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Schurka	conj
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 cat	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Waska	appos
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 cat	punct
25	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 friends	acl:relcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 saved	advmod
27	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 saved	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 saved	aux
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 saved	advmod
30	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 remembered	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saved	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 death	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 death	det
34	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 death	amod
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saved	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 took	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remembered	conj
40	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obj
41	together	together	ADV	_	39 took	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 help	mark
43	to	to	ADP	_	42 as	fixed
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 help	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 help	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 help	aux
47	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 took	advcl
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 help	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Schurka and Waska	King's old friends not said here				tree rules
2	save	past · perfect · passive		Martin		a cruel death	once property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme
3	take	past	dogs = dog	counsel			together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
4	help	should	dogs = dog		Martin			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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