The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 97
The toads were all freed, and were beautiful King’s children, running about for joy.
What happens: free, be, run about · To what, where: toads
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: 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 toads | det |
| 2 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 freed | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 freed | advmod |
| 5 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 freed | conj |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beautiful | list |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 running | punct |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 freed | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 running | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past · passive | the toads | all property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run about | gerund | for joy; about property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for joy=Beneficiary |
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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