The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 135
When they got back again to the window they saw that the old hag was moving towards the door.
Who acts: trolls, old hag · What happens: get back, see, move · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old hag), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 moving | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hag | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hag | amod |
| 14 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moving | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moving | aux |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | trolls = troll | again | to the window result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to window=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past | trolls = troll | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | past · progressive | the old hag | the door | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards door=Trajectory |
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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