The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 125
Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged.
Who acts: soldier, people · What happens: see, hurry, hange · To what, where: iron grating, town, soldier
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 (soldier, people), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 grating | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grating | det |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grating | compound |
| 9 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 window | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 window | amod |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 front | nmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 hurrying | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hurrying | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurrying | aux |
| 20 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 see | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurrying | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hurrying | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 see | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | soldier | the iron grating | morning | in front of soldier's little window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | hurry | past · progressive | the people | the town | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out town=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hange | participle | soldier not said here | tree rules |
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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