The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 194
At these words Martin’s joy knew no bounds, and he stroked her fondly, and she rubbed up against him and purred happily, while below Schurka bounded in the air, and barked joyfully.
Who acts: joy, passage, Martin · What happens: know, stroke, rub up, purr, bound, bark · To what, where: bounds, words, passage, Schurka
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 (joy, passage, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obl |
| 4 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 joy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Martin | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 bounds | det |
| 9 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stroked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stroked | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stroked | nsubj |
| 13 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stroked | obj |
| 15 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 13 stroked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rubbed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rubbed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rubbed | nsubj |
| 19 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rubbed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 purred | cc |
| 24 | purred | purr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rubbed | conj |
| 25 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 24 purred | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bounded | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 bounded | mark |
| 28 | below | below | ADP | _ | 29 Schurka | case |
| 29 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bounded | obl |
| 30 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rubbed | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 air | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 air | det |
| 33 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bounded | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 barked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 barked | cc |
| 36 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 37 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 36 barked | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Martin's joy | no bounds | this words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stroke | past | joy | passage | fondly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | rub up | past | passage | against joy | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | purr | participle | passage not said here | happily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bound | past | passage not said here | Schurka | in the air | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below schurka=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | bark | past | Martin's joy not said here | joyfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | joy | Martin | nom joy «feeling 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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