The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 177
A countless number of mice, small and big, brown and grey, assembled, and formed a circle round their king, who was a prisoner under Waska’s claws.
Who acts: king · What happens: assemble, form, be · To what, where: circle, prisoner, claws
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 (king), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mice | case |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mice | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 big | cc |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 small | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brown | punct |
| 11 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 small | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grey | cc |
| 13 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brown | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assembled | punct |
| 15 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 small | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 formed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 formed | cc |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 assembled | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 circle | det |
| 20 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obj |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 king | nmod:poss |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prisoner | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 prisoner | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 prisoner | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prisoner | det |
| 28 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 king | conj |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 claws | case |
| 30 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 claws | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Waska | case |
| 32 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 prisoner | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | form | past | a circle | round mice's king and a prisoner | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | mice's king and a prisoner | a prisoner | Waska's claws | tree rules |
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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