The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 61
Ring got the two axes, and each went his own way; but when the Prince had got out into the wood Snati took one of the axes and began to hew along with him.
Who acts: Ring, Prince, wood · What happens: get, go, get out, take, begin, hew · To what, where: two axes, own way, one
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 (Ring, Prince, wood), 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 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 axes | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 axes | nummod |
| 5 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 got | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 got | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 25 took | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 24 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wood | appos |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 axes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 axes | det |
| 29 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 hew | mark |
| 33 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 began | xcomp |
| 34 | along | along | ADV | _ | 33 hew | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hew | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ring | the two axes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ax=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Ring not said here | Ring's own way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get out | past · perfect | the Prince | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the wood | one of the axes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | the wood not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | hew | to-infinitive | the wood not said here | with Ring; along property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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