The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 109
Then she went home and lay down, and the dog came back also, with the Princess.
Who acts: Queen, dog · What happens: go, lay down, come back
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Princess | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Queen | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Queen not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | the dog | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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