The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 90
They started to their feet at once, and he gave them as much silver and gold as they could carry when they went away.
Who acts: comrades, lad · What happens: start, give, carry, go away · To what, where: comrades
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades, lad), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 started | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 started | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 silver | amod |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gold | cc |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 silver | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | aux |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gave | advcl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | advcl |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | comrades = comrade | to comrades's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | past | lad | comrades = comrade | as much silver and gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | could | comrades = comrade | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go away | past | comrades = comrade | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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