The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 48
The King screamed aloud in agony, and when his wife, the Snow-daughter, who had taken refuge from her brother in the next room, hurried to him, the King lay dead on the ground burnt to a cinder.
Who acts: King, Snow daughter, wife · What happens: scream, take, hurry, lay, burnt · To what, where: agony, refuge, next room, King, ground
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 (King, Snow daughter, wife), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 screamed | nsubj |
| 3 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 3 screamed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 agony | case |
| 6 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screamed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hurried | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 hurried | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hurried | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 14 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Snow | punct |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 21 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 brother | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 refuge | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 27 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 30 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 screamed | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hurried | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lay | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurried | parataxis |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lay | xcomp |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 ground | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ground | det |
| 40 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 41 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 ground | acl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 cinder | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 cinder | det |
| 44 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 burnt | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the King | agony | aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the Snow daughter | refuge | the next room | from wife's brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme from brother=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | hurry | past | King's wife and the Snow daughter | King | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | the King | the ground | dead property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | |||
| 5 | burnt | participle | the ground not said here | to a cinder | tree rules |
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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