The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 52
Now he threw away all the silver with which he had filled his pockets and knapsack, and filled them with gold instead--yes, all his pockets, his knapsack, cap and boots even, so that he could hardly walk.
Who acts: heap · What happens: throw away, fill, walk · To what, where: silver, pockets
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 (heap), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 silver | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 silver | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 filled | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 silver | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | obj | |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knapsack | cc |
| 16 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pockets | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 19 filled | advmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 pockets | punct |
| 25 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 29 pockets | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yes | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 pockets | det:predet |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl | |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knapsack | punct |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 32 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pockets | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cap | punct |
| 34 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knapsack | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 boots | cc |
| 36 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 pockets | conj |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 walk | punct |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 walk | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 so | fixed |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 walk | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 walk | aux |
| 43 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 44 walk | advmod |
| 44 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threw | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | heap | all silver | now | heap's pockets and heap's knapsack and boots obl; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme | ||
| 2 | fill | past · perfect | heap | heap's pockets and knapsack | with all silver | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with which=Instrument | |||
| 3 | fill | past | heap not said here | pockets = pocket | with gold; instead property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 4 | walk | could | heap | hardly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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