The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 153
At that moment Schurka made a rush between his legs--the baker stumbled, the tray was upset, the rolls fell to the ground, and, while the man angrily pursued Schurka, Waska managed to drag the rolls out of sight behind a bush.
Who acts: Schurka, baker, tray, rolls, man, Waska · What happens: make, stumble, be, fall, pursue, manage · To what, where: rush, Schurka, rolls, sight
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, baker, tray, rolls), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 4 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rush | det |
| 7 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rush | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 stumbled | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baker | det |
| 13 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stumbled | nsubj |
| 14 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 upset | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tray | det |
| 17 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 upset | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 upset | cop |
| 19 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stumbled | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rolls | det |
| 22 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pursued | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pursued | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pursued | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 pursued | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pursued | nsubj |
| 33 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 32 man | advmod |
| 34 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 35 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 pursued | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 managed | punct |
| 37 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 managed | nsubj |
| 38 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 pursued | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 drag | mark |
| 40 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 managed | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rolls | det |
| 42 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 drag | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 sight | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 sight | case |
| 45 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 drag | obl |
| 46 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 48 bush | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bush | det |
| 48 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 drag | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Schurka | a rush | moment | between Schurka's legs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Product | ||
| 2 | stumble | participle | the baker | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the tray | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the rolls | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pursue | past | the man | Schurka | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schurka=Theme | ||||
| 6 | manage | past | Waska | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | drag | to-infinitive | Waska not said here | the rolls | sight | behind a bush | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent roll=Theme out sight=Initial_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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