The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 84
Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fountain, turned themselves into eagles again, and flew away.
Who acts: youths · What happens: rise, go back, turn, fly away · To what, where: table, fountains
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 (youths), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youths | det |
| 3 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fountain | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fountain | amod |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fountain | compound |
| 15 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 turned | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 eagles | case |
| 20 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 flew | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the youths | the table | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go back | past | the youths not said here | to the great stone fountain result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the youths not said here | fountains = fountain | again | into eagles result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into eagle=Result | ||
| 4 | fly away | past | the youths not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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