The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 17
He sat in his golden chair, and read and read.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: sit, read · To what, where: golden chair
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 (gardener), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 chair | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chair | amod |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 read | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 read | cc |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sat | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 read | cc |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 read | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | gardener | gardener's golden chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | gardener not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | gardener not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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