The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 59
But she had only gone a few steps when the bells rang out so prettily--
Who acts: Papa, bells · What happens: go, ring out · To what, where: few steps
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Papa, bells), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steps | amod |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rang | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bells | det |
| 11 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rang | nsubj |
| 12 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 rang | compound:prt |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 prettily | advmod |
| 15 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 12 rang | advmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Papa | a few steps | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ring out | past | the bells | prettily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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