The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 48
When the youth had overtaken them, he saw that there was a clear spring in the middle of the space.
Who acts: length, clear spring · What happens: overtake, see, be · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (length, clear spring), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 overtaken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overtaken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overtaken | aux |
| 5 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overtaken | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overtaken | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spring | det |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spring | amod |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spring | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 space | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 space | det |
| 21 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 middle | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past · perfect · passive | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | length | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a clear spring in the middle of the space | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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