The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 142
The most valuable of these they carried with them as far as the cliff, and left them there.
Who acts: others · What happens: carry, leave · To what, where: others
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 (others), 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 | 3 valuable | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 valuable | advmod |
| 3 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 valuable | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 valuable | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 carried | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 cliff | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cliff | det |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 far | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 left | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | others = other | with ashes = ash; far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | others = other not said here | others = other | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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