More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 10
On she wandered, till she came to a great hill of glass, that she tried all she could to climb, but wasn't able.
Who acts: lady · What happens: wander, come, try, climb, not be · To what, where: great hill, all
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 wandered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hill | amod |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 tried | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tried | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 climb | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 climb | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 climb | mark |
| 22 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 all | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 able | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 able | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 able | cop |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 able | advmod |
| 27 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wandered | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | lady | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | lady | a great hill of glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | try | past | lady | all | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | climb | could | lady | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | lady not said here | able 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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