The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 61
When the day dawned she arose, and the old toad gave her three things out of the huge chest to take with her.
Who acts: day, leg, old toad · What happens: dawn, arise, give, take · To what, where: three things, leg, huge 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 (day, leg, old 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | nsubj |
| 4 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 toad | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toad | amod |
| 11 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 things | nummod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 chest | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chest | det |
| 19 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chest | amod |
| 20 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gave | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | the day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | leg | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the old toad | three things | leg | the huge chest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient thing=Theme | ||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the old toad not said here | with leg | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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