The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 59
The Crab then gave his wife the same directions as before, only this time the apple which she received from the black man was of gold.
Who acts: Crab, apple · What happens: give, receive, be · To what, where: same directions, wife, time
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 (Crab, apple), 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 Crab | det |
| 2 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 directions | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 directions | amod |
| 9 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 before | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | nsubj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 received | nsubj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 apple | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gold | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Crab | the same directions | husband's wife | then; time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient direction=Theme | ||
| 2 | receive | past | the apple | from the black man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from man=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the apple | this time not said here | of gold | tree rules |
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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