The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 59
The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.
Who acts: Witch, soldier · What happens: pull up, stand, fill · To what, where: soldier, high road, boots
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 (Witch, 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 Witch | det |
| 2 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 stood | expl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pockets | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pockets | case |
| 18 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obl | |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knapsack | punct |
| 20 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pockets | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cap | punct |
| 22 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pockets | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 boots | cc |
| 24 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cap | conj |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 boots | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | the Witch | soldier | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | soldier | the high road; there | again | with pockets cap and boots and knapsack | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location | ||
| 3 | fill | participle | boots not said here | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |
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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