The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 13
When he had gone a short distance he met a little old manikin.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: go, meet · To what, where: short distance, little old manikin
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 distance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 manikin | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 manikin | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 manikin | amod |
| 13 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Simpleton | a short distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Simpleton | a little old manikin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Co-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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