The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 71
He did not overtake the dog, but found himself above a staircase, which he descended.
Who acts: dog, staircase · What happens: not overtake, find, descend · To what, where: dog, staircase
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 (dog, staircase), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 overtake | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overtake | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 overtake | advmod |
| 4 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overtake | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overtake | parataxis |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 staircase | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staircase | det |
| 13 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 descended | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 descended | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 descended | nsubj |
| 17 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overtake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not overtake | past · do-support | dog | the dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | dog | a staircase | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | descend | past | a staircase | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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