The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 40
But one day when he was out hunting he felt very thirsty, and coming to a stream he stooped down to drink from it, and this caused his death, for a crab came swimming up, and with its claws tore out his tongue.
Who acts: Prince, this · What happens: hunt, feel, come, stoop, drink, cause · To what, where: stream, death, tongue
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hunting | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hunting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | aux |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 felt | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 thirsty | advmod |
| 12 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 coming | cc |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 felt | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stream | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stream | det |
| 18 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stooped | nsubj |
| 20 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stream | acl:relcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drink | mark |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 coming | advcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drink | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 caused | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 caused | cc |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 caused | nsubj |
| 29 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 death | nmod:poss |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 caused | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 crab | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 crab | det |
| 35 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 caused | conj |
| 37 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 came | xcomp |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 swimming | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tore | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 tore | cc |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 claws | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 claws | nmod:poss |
| 43 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 tore | obl |
| 44 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 came | conj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 tore | compound:prt |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 47 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tore | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | Prince | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Prince | thirsty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Prince not said here | a stream | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | stoop | past | Prince | a stream not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from it=Source | ||||
| 6 | cause | past | this | Prince's death | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | ||||
| 7 | come | past | this not said here | for a crab | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | swim up | gerund | this not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | tore out | past | this not said here | Prince's tongue | with crab's claws | tree rules | |||
| 10 | die | Prince | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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