The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 106
After a little, however, he recovered again, and they went a short distance along a level plain, until they came to a cave.
Who acts: Prince, cliffs · What happens: recover, go, come · To what, where: short distance, cave
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, cliffs), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 recovered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 recovered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 recovered | nsubj |
| 8 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 recovered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 recovered | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 plain | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 plain | det |
| 19 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plain | compound |
| 20 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 cave | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cave | det |
| 27 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | Prince | after a little; again | however property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | cliffs = cliff | a short distance | along a level plain | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | cliffs = cliff | a cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location |
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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