The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 99
Straight on he strode, letting neither hill nor river hinder him.
Who acts: blessing, hill · What happens: stride, let, hinder · To what, where: hill, blessing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, hill), 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 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 strode | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 strode | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strode | nsubj |
| 4 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 letting | punct |
| 6 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 strode | advcl |
| 7 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letting | obj |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 river | cc |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hill | conj |
| 11 | hinder | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 letting | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hinder | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | blessing | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | blessing not said here | neither hill nor river | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hinder | present | neither hill nor river not said here | blessing | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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