The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 133
Before they had got back again, however, and up on top of the cave, they saw the poor old fellow’s ghost come marching up from the river.
Who acts: trolls, ghost, poor old fellow · What happens: get back, see, come, march up, ghost · To what, where: top, river
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 (trolls, ghost, poor old fellow), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 top | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 top | cc |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 top | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fellow | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fellow | amod |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fellow | amod |
| 23 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ghost | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 fellow | case |
| 25 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 27 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 come | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 marching | compound:prt |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 river | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 river | det |
| 31 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marching | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past · perfect | trolls = troll | top of the cave | again | however property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on top=Source | ||
| 2 | see | past | trolls = troll | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | present | the poor old fellow's ghost | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | march up | gerund | the poor old fellow's ghost not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from river=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | ghost | the poor old fellow | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=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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