The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 13
When her husband came home and they sat down to dinner, they presently heard the Crab’s little voice saying, ‘Give me some too.’
Who acts: husband, feet, little voice · What happens: come, sit down, hear, say, give · To what, where: some, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, feet, little voice), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dinner | case |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 15 heard | advmod |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Crab | det |
| 17 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Crab | case |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | nsubj |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Give | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Give | punct |
| 24 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Give | iobj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 Give | obj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 Give | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | voice's husband | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | feet = foot | to dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | feet = foot | presently property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Crab's little voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | some | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=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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