The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 41
Then she called to her husband: ‘Old man, yoke the horses at once into the sledge, and take my daughter to the same field and leave her on the same spot exactly; ‘and so the old man took the girl and left her beneath the same tree where he had parted from his daughter.
Who acts: door, Old man, man · What happens: call, yoke, take, leave, part · To what, where: Old man, husband, horses, daughter, same field, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Old man, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yoke | punct |
| 12 | yoke | yoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 man | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horses | det |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 yoke | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 yoke | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 sledge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sledge | det |
| 19 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 once | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 field | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 field | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 field | amod |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 leave | cc |
| 30 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 spot | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spot | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 spot | amod |
| 35 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leave | obl |
| 36 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 30 leave | advmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 took | cc |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 took | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | nsubj |
| 44 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 girl | det |
| 46 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 left | cc |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 took | conj |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 left | obj |
| 50 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 53 tree | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 tree | det |
| 52 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 tree | amod |
| 53 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 left | obl |
| 54 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 57 parted | advmod |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 parted | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 parted | aux |
| 57 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 53 tree | acl:relcl |
| 58 | from | from | ADP | _ | 60 daughter | case |
| 59 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 60 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 parted | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | door | Old man | door's husband | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | ||
| 2 | yoke | infinitive | Old man not said here | the horses | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | my daughter | the same field | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to field=Destination | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | door | the same spot | exactly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on spot=Location | |||
| 5 | take | past | the old man | the girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | the old man not said here | door | the same tree | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme beneath tree=Location | |||
| 7 | part | past · perfect | man | from man's daughter | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from daughter=Co-Patient |
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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