The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 123
So the Simpleton climbed up upon the stove, and, wrapping himself up in the bath blankets, lay there the whole night.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: climb up, wrap up, lay · To what, where: stove, Simpleton, bath blankets
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simpleton | det |
| 3 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 climbed | compound:prt |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 stove | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stove | det |
| 8 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapping | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrapping | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapping | punct |
| 12 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 climbed | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 wrapping | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 wrapping | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 blankets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blankets | det |
| 17 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blankets | compound |
| 18 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wrapping | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 night | amod |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | the Simpleton | the stove | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stove=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | wrap up | gerund | the Simpleton not said here | Simpleton | the bath blankets | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in blanket=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | present | the Simpleton not said here | there | night | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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