The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 40
The youth immediately resolved to follow the birds to the spring, only two things made him uneasy: first, lest he might be asleep when the birds went, and secondly, lest he might lose sight of them, since he had not wings to carry him along so swiftly.
Who acts: two things, wisdom, birds, wings · What happens: resolve, follow, make, be, go, lose · To what, where: youth, birds, wisdom, sight, wings
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two things, wisdom, birds, wings), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 resolved | advmod |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birds | det |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spring | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 two | advmod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 things | nummod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resolved | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 first | punct |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 resolved | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 22 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 26 asleep | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asleep | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 asleep | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 asleep | cop |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 went | advcl |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 went | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 birds | det |
| 29 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resolved | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 secondly | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 secondly | cc |
| 33 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lose | punct |
| 35 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 38 lose | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lose | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 lose | aux |
| 38 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 went | parataxis |
| 39 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lose | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sight | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 had | punct |
| 43 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 45 had | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 had | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 lose | conj |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 wings | advmod |
| 47 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 had | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 carry | mark |
| 49 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 had | xcomp |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 carry | obj |
| 51 | along | along | ADV | _ | 49 carry | advmod |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 swiftly | advmod |
| 53 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 49 carry | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | participle · passive | the youth | first, immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the birds | spring | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | two things | wisdom | uneasy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | is | might | wisdom | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the birds | secondly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | might | wisdom | sight of birds | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | have | past | wisdom | wings | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | carry | to-infinitive | wings not said here | wisdom | along, swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 9 | sight | birds = bird | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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