The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 147
He came and paid them a visit in his black-velvet coat.
Who acts: neighbour · What happens: come, pay · To what, where: ladies, velvet coat
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 visit | det |
| 7 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 coat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 coat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 velvet | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 black | punct |
| 12 | velvet | velvet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coat | amod |
| 13 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | neighbour not said here | ladies = lady | neighbour's velvet coat | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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