The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 51
The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird.
Who acts: Fowler, wife, Yellow Bird · What happens: run, make, stew · To what, where: savoury stew
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fowler, wife, Yellow Bird), 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 Fowler | det |
| 2 | Fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 joy | amod |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fowler | nmod |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stew | det |
| 16 | savoury | savoury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stew | amod |
| 17 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Bird | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bird | det |
| 20 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Bird | amod |
| 21 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stew | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Fowler with great joy | to Fowler's wife result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Fowler's wife | a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird | speedily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Product | |||
| 3 | stew | the Yellow Bird | nom stew «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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