The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 73
But the twins ran straight on till they reached their own home.
Who acts: twins · What happens: run, reach · To what, where: own home
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twins), 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 | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 twins | det |
| 3 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the twins | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | twins = twin | twins's own home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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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