The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 150

Together the two faithful creatures trotted off into the town, and very soon they met a baker bearing a tray on his head, and looking round on all sides, while he cried:

Who acts: two faithful creatures, creatures, baker · What happens: trot off, meet, bear, look round, cry · To what, where: town, baker, tray, head

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 (two faithful creatures, creatures, baker), 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	Together	together	ADV	_	6 trotted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creatures	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 creatures	nummod
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	amod
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trotted	nsubj
6	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 trotted	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trotted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 met	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 met	cc
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 met	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trotted	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 baker	det
18	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obj
19	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 met	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tray	det
21	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bearing	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bearing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cried	cc
27	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 cried	advcl
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 looking	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 sides	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 sides	det
31	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cried	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 cried	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cried	nsubj
35	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trotted	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trot off	past	the two faithful creatures		the town	together property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into town=Destination
2	meet	past	creatures = creature	a baker		soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baker=Co-Agent
3	bear	gerund	creatures = creature not said here	a tray	baker's head		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Patient
4	look round	gerund	baker not said here			on all sides; round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	baker				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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