The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 49
She left the hut, went into the forest, climbed a tree, and spent the night there.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: leave, go, climb, spend · To what, where: hut, forest, tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hut | det |
| 4 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climbed | punct |
| 11 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climbed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spent | cc |
| 16 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spent | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 spent | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | maiden | the hut | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | maiden not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spend | past | maiden not said here | there | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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