The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 77
Hadvor made no sign, but waited till he had fallen asleep, and then crept out and burned the lion’s skin, which he had left outside.
Who acts: Hadvor, Hermod · What happens: make, wait, fall, creep out, burn, leave · To what, where: sign, skin
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hadvor, Hermod), 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 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 fallen | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fallen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fallen | aux |
| 11 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 waited | ccomp |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fallen | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crept | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 crept | advmod |
| 16 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 crept | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 burned | cc |
| 19 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crept | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 lion | case |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burned | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 left | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 left | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 skin | acl:relcl |
| 29 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 28 left | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Hadvor | no sign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Hadvor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | Hermod | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | creep out | past | then | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burn | past | the lion's skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the lion's skin | outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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