The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 163
She was the hind that you and your companions chased; she was the woman that you found in the clearing with the barrel, and the old hag that we just now killed in the cave.’
Who acts: bridegroom, you · What happens: be, chase, find, kill · To what, where: hind, woman, clearing, old hag, 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 (bridegroom, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hind | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hind | det |
| 4 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 companions | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 you | conj |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hind | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 woman | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 woman | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hind | appos |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 found | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 woman | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 clearing | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clearing | det |
| 21 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 barrel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 barrel | det |
| 24 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clearing | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hag | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hag | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hag | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hag | amod |
| 29 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hind | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 killed | advmod |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 killed | advmod |
| 34 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 hag | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 cave | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cave | det |
| 37 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 killed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 hag | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bridegroom | the hind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chase | participle · passive | the hind | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | bridegroom | the woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | past | you | the woman | the clearing with the barrel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 5 | kill | participle · passive | the old hag | the cave | now | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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