The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 164
And Waska took leave of her beloved master, and set off with Schurka on their journey.
Who acts: Waska, rolls · What happens: take, set off, journey · To what, where: leave, journey
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 (Waska, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Schurka | case |
| 14 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Waska | leave of Waska's beloved master | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | Waska not said here | rolls's journey | with Schurka | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | journey | rolls = roll | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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