More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 78
So she pulled and fought as if she were mad, till she fell on her knees, spent with tugging, at the foot of the snag.
Who acts: light · What happens: pull, fight, be, fall, spend · To what, where: knees
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fought | cc |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 mad | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 mad | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mad | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mad | cop |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fought | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 fell | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 knees | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spent | punct |
| 19 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 knees | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tugging | case |
| 21 | tugging | tugging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spent | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 foot | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 foot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 foot | det |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 snag | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 snag | det |
| 28 | snag | snag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 foot | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | light | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | light not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | light | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | light | light's knees | at the foot of the snag | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 5 | spend | participle | light's knees not said here | with tugging | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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