The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 2
Then three of them took counsel together and determined to desert.
Who acts: three · What happens: take, desert · To what, where: counsel
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three), 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 | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 three | nmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 determined | cc |
| 9 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 desert | mark |
| 11 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | three of soldiers | counsel | then | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||
| 2 | desert | to-infinitive | three of soldiers not said here | vn leave-51.2-1 «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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