The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 42
As soon as she had finished it the Giant disappeared with the trough by the same way as he had come, and the Queen returned to her human shape.
Who acts: Queen, Giant, two · What happens: finish, disappear, come, return · To what, where: little
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 (Queen, Giant, two), 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 | 6 finished | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 finished | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 disappeared | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Giant | det |
| 9 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 disappeared | nsubj |
| 10 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trough | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trough | det |
| 13 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disappeared | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disappeared | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 disappeared | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disappeared | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 shape | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shape | nmod:poss |
| 29 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shape | amod |
| 30 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Queen | little | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | the Giant | with the trough; by the same way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | two | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | past | the Queen | to Queen's human shape result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result |
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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