The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 22
On the way home he met another rider, and did the return journey in exactly the same way.
Who acts: snail · What happens: meet, do · To what, where: rider, way, return journey, same way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 rider | det |
| 8 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 journey | compound |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | snail | another rider | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | do | past | snail not said here | the return journey | the same way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
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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