The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 87
The next minute they saw coming after them another huge whale, followed by fifteen smaller ones.
Who acts: next minute · What happens: see, come, follow · To what, where: huge whale
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 (next minute), 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 | 3 minute | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minute | amod |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 coming | obl |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 whale | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whale | amod |
| 11 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 ones | case |
| 15 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ones | nummod |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the next minute | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the next minute not said here | another huge whale | after lives = life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | participle | the next minute not said here | by fifteen smaller ones | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by one=Location |
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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