More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 75
And the Moon herself was so taken up with saving him, and with rejoicing that he was back on the right path, that she clean forgot that she needed help herself, and that she was held fast by the Black Snag.
Who acts: thing, light, Black Snag · What happens: take up, save, be, clean, forget, need · To what, where: Moon, thing, right path, light
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 (thing, light, Black 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Moon | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 taken | advmod |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 taken | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 saving | mark |
| 10 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taken | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgot | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 forgot | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 rejoicing | case |
| 15 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forgot | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 path | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 path | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 path | cop |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 path | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 path | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 path | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 path | amod |
| 23 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejoicing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clean | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 clean | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 clean | nsubj |
| 27 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 path | acl:relcl |
| 28 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 needed | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 needed | nsubj |
| 31 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 forgot | advcl |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 needed | xcomp |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 held | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 held | cc |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 held | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 held | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 held | aux:pass |
| 39 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 forgot | conj |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 held | advmod |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 Snag | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Snag | det |
| 43 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Snag | compound |
| 44 | Snag | Snag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 held | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past · passive | the Moon light | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | save | gerund | thing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | thing | the right path | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | clean | infinitive | light | the right path not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent path=Patient | ||||
| 5 | forget | past | with rejoicing and the right path | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | need | past | light | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | help not said to happen | infinitive | light not said here | light | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | hold | past · passive | the Black Snag | light | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: «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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