The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 118
The girl took the gold and ran out with it, and it was so bright that it shone all over the plain.
Who acts: girl, gold · What happens: take, run out, be, shine · To what, where: gold, plain
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 (girl, gold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bright | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bright | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bright | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bright | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 bright | advmod |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 shone | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bright | advcl |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 plain | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 plain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plain | det |
| 23 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the girl | the gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | the girl not said here | with gold | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 3 | is | past | gold | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | gold | the plain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plain=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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