The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 184
In a flash the tiny mouse had seized it, and brought it to Waska as a ransom for the King of the Mice.
What happens: seize, bring · To what, where: tiny mouse, flash, ring, Waska
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 flash | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | aux |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Waska | case |
| 15 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 ransom | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ransom | det |
| 18 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 King | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ransom | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Mice | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mice | det |
| 24 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 King | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · perfect · passive | the tiny mouse | a flash | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | ring | Waska | as a ransom for the King of the Mice | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to waska=Destination |
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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