The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 57
Then he went by another way through the window secretly, and in all haste back to his comrades.
Who acts: whale · What happens: go · To what, where: window
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 (whale), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 haste | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 haste | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 haste | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 haste | det |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 haste | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 comrades | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 19 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 back | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | whale | the window | then | by another way; in all haste; secretly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location |
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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