The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 27
They went into a field, sat down, and the two pulled long faces.
Who acts: carriages, two · What happens: go, sit down, pull · To what, where: field, long faces
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 (carriages, two), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 two | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pulled | nsubj |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faces | amod |
| 15 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pulled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | carriages = carriage | a field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | carriages = carriage not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull | past | the two | long faces | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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