The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 30
As soon as the child got into her charge he stopped crying, and behaved well as before.
Who acts: child, son, Last · What happens: get, stop, cry, behave, charge · To what, where: charge
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 (child, son, Last), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 charge | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 charge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 charge | acl:relcl |
| 12 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 behaved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 behaved | cc |
| 15 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | conj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 behaved | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 behaved | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the child | Last's charge | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into charge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | son | Last's charge not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | behave | participle | the child not said here | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as before=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | charge | Last | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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