The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 120
The dog did not notice how the grains were strewn right from the castle to the Soldier’s window, where he ran up the wall with the Princess.
Who acts: dog, soldier · What happens: not notice, strewn, run up · To what, where: grains, castle, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dog, soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 notice | advmod |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 strewn | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grains | det |
| 8 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 strewn | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strewn | aux:pass |
| 10 | strewn | strewn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 notice | ccomp |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 castle | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strewn | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Soldier | det |
| 17 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 window | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Soldier | case |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strewn | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 ran | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 ran | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past · do-support | the dog | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | strewn | past · passive | the grains | the castle | to the Soldier's window | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run up | past | soldier | the wall | with the Princess | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product with princess=Material |
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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