More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 64
She pulled and twisted and fought, but it was no good.
Who acts: goodwife, snag · What happens: pull, twist, fight, be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodwife, snag), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twisted | cc |
| 4 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fought | cc |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 twisted | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 good | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 good | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 good | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | goodwife | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | goodwife not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | past | goodwife not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | snag | good 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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