The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 17
Then she fixed the top on the barrel and threw it out into the sea.
Who acts: woman · What happens: fix, throw out · To what, where: top, barrel, sea
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 (woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fixed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 barrel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 barrel | det |
| 8 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixed | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 threw | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | woman | the top | the barrel | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent top=Patient | ||
| 2 | throw out | past | woman not said here | barrel | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result |
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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