The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 76
When he had regained the upper air he started for his old home, and having found his mother still living in the old house where he had left her, they settled down together very happily.
Who acts: Martin, mother, stones · What happens: regain, start, have, find, live, leave · To what, where: upper air, mother, old house
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 (Martin, mother, stones), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 regained | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 regained | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 regained | aux |
| 4 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 6 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 air | amod |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 regained | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 air | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 home | amod |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 regained | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 living | advmod |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 mother | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 living | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 left | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 settled | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 settled | nsubj |
| 33 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | conj |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 settled | advmod |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 settled | advmod |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 happily | advmod |
| 37 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 33 settled | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 regained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | past · perfect | Martin | the upper air | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Martin | the upper air not said here | for Martin's old home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | Martin's mother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | |||||
| 5 | live | gerund | Martin's mother not said here | the old house | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect | Martin | mother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | settle down | past | stones = stone | down, happily, together property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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