The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 59
And the little toad went and brought out a great chest.
Who acts: little toad · What happens: go, bring out · To what, where: great chest
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little toad), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toad | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toad | amod |
| 4 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 brought | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chest | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chest | amod |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little toad | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring out | past | the little toad not said here | a great chest | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chest=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/8/59/