The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 16
The books were circulated throughout the world, and some of them reached the Emperor.
Who acts: some · What happens: circulate, reach · To what, where: books, Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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 books | det |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 circulated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 circulated | aux:pass |
| 4 | circulated | circulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 circulated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 some | nmod |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 circulated | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Emperor | det |
| 15 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 circulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circulate | past · passive | the books | throughout the world | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | some | the Emperor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent emperor=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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