English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 57
Hindes Groome, and Mr. Andrew Lang, have thus yielded up to me some of the most attractive stories in the following pages.
What happens: yield up, follow · To what, where: Hindes, me
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Hindes | Hindes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 yielded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Groome | Groome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hindes | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Andrew | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Andrew | cc |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hindes | conj |
| 7 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Andrew | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hindes | punct |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 yielded | aux |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 yielded | advmod |
| 11 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 yielded | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 yielded | obl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 yielded | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stories | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 attractive | advmod |
| 19 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stories | amod |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 some | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pages | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pages | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 pages | amod |
| 24 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stories | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield up | present · perfect · passive | Hindes and Andrew Mr. | me | thus property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal some=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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