The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 176
Then he shouted the same thing again, and yet again, but she never moved in her place; and at last he grew angry, threw the glass in her face, so that she fell back into the cart, for she was not tied in her place.
Who acts: host, woman · What happens: shout, not move, grow, throw, fall back, not tie · To what, where: same thing, place, last, glass, face, cart
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, woman), 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 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 thing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 again | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 again | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 again | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 shouted | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moved | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 moved | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 moved | advmod |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 26 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threw | punct |
| 28 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grew | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 glass | det |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threw | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 face | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 face | nmod:poss |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threw | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 fell | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fell | nsubj |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grew | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 fell | advmod |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 cart | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cart | det |
| 42 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 tied | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 48 tied | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 tied | aux:pass |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 tied | advmod |
| 48 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 fell | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 place | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 place | nmod:poss |
| 51 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 tied | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | host | the same thing | then; again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 2 | not move | past | woman | woman's place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | host | last | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 4 | throw | past | host not said here | the glass | woman's face | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glass=Theme in face=Destination | |||
| 5 | fall back | past | woman | into the cart result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cart=Result | ||||
| 6 | not tie | past · passive | woman | woman's place | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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