The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 29
The Simpleton thanked the manikin very kindly, bade him farewell, and went into the road.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: thank, go · To what, where: manikin, road
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Simpleton | det |
| 2 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manikin | det |
| 5 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 kindly | advmod |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Simpleton | the manikin | farewell, kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into road=Initial_Location |
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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