The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 46
After he had walked on in silence for a time the Dog spoke to him and said:
Who acts: Giant, Dog · What happens: walk, speak, say · To what, where: silence, time, Giant · 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 (Giant, Dog), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 silence | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 silence | case |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dog | det |
| 12 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spoke | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Giant | silence | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on silence=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the Dog | a time not said here | Giant | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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