The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 31
So they put on the fur cloaks, and set out cheerfully on their way, and for the first time in their lives quite happy in each other’s company.
Who acts: children · What happens: put, set out · To what, where: fur cloaks, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cloaks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloaks | det |
| 6 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloaks | compound |
| 7 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 happy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 happy | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lives | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 time | nmod |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 happy | advmod |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 each | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 company | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 each | fixed |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 each | case |
| 31 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 happy | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | children = child | the fur cloaks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | children = child not said here | children's way | cheerfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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