The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 57
The younger, who had eaten the heart of the Yellow Bird, very soon found out what it had done for him, for each morning when he awoke he found a purse containing a hundred gold pieces under his pillow.
Who acts: Badi, purse · What happens: eat, find out, do, awake, find, contain · To what, where: heart, news, purse, hundred gold pieces, pillow
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 (Badi, purse), 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 younger | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 eaten | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 younger | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaten | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Bird | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bird | det |
| 11 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bird | amod |
| 12 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 eaten | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 found | compound:prt |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 morning | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 morning | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 awoke | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 awoke | nsubj |
| 30 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | advcl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 awoke | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 purse | det |
| 34 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 purse | acl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hundred | det |
| 37 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 pieces | nummod |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pieces | compound |
| 39 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 containing | obj |
| 40 | under | under | ADP | _ | 42 pillow | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 42 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pieces | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 younger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | the heart of the Yellow Bird | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find out | participle | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | news | morning | for Bird | tree rules | |||
| 4 | awake | past | Badi | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | past | Badi | a purse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic | ||||
| 6 | contain | gerund | a purse not said here | hundred gold pieces | Badi's pillow | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=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 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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