More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 70
And though she couldn't get loose, she twisted and turned, till her black hood fell back off her shining yellow hair, and the beautiful light that came from it drove away the darkness.
Who acts: light, black hood, beautiful light · What happens: not get, twist, turn, fall back, shine, come · To what, where: yellow hair, hood, darkness
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 (light, black hood, beautiful light), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 twisted | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 twisted | advcl |
| 7 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 twisted | nsubj |
| 10 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 twisted | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hood | nmod:poss |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hood | amod |
| 17 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 shining | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shining | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 fell | advcl |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shining | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 drove | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drove | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 light | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drove | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 light | acl:relcl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | obl |
| 34 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 twisted | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 drove | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 darkness | det |
| 37 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drove | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | light | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | twist | past | light | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | light not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall back | past | light's black hood | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | light's black hood not said here | yellow hair | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the beautiful light | hood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | drive away | past | the beautiful light | the darkness | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme darkness=Trajectory |
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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