The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 7
They crept into the corn, but the army did not march on, but remained encamped close around them.
Who acts: others, army · What happens: creep, not march on, encamp · To what, where: corn
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 (others, army), 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 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 corn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corn | det |
| 5 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 march | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 march | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 march | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 march | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 march | advmod |
| 12 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 crept | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 march | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 encamped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 encamped | cc |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 encamped | aux:pass |
| 17 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crept | conj |
| 18 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 encamped | advmod |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 encamped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | others = other | the corn | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corn=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not march on | past · do-support | the army | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | encamp | past · passive | others = other not said here | around others = other; close property | tree rules |
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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