The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 154
And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at full tilt to the stone tower where Martin was a prisoner, taking the rolls with them.
Who acts: moment, rolls, Martin · What happens: join, set off, be, take · To what, where: Waska, full tilt, prisoner, rolls
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 (moment, rolls, Martin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 joined | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 Schurka | advmod |
| 6 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | appos |
| 7 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 joined | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joined | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tilt | case |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tilt | amod |
| 15 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tower | compound |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tilt | nmod |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 prisoner | advmod |
| 21 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 prisoner | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prisoner | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prisoner | det |
| 24 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tower | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taking | punct |
| 26 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 set | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rolls | det |
| 28 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 taking | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 taking | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | a moment | Waska | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | rolls = roll | full tilt to the stone tower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Martin | a prisoner | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | rolls = roll not said here | the rolls | with rolls = roll | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=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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