The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 64
Now he hoped his difficulties were over, but at the next turning he was met by one which he did not know how to overcome.
Who acts: King, difficulties · What happens: hope, be, meet, not know, overcome · To what, where: King, next turning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, difficulties), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hoped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hoped | nsubj |
| 3 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 difficulties | nmod:poss |
| 5 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 hoped | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 turning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 turning | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turning | amod |
| 13 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 met | aux:pass |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hoped | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 met | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 know | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 overcome | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 overcome | mark |
| 26 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 know | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | King | now | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | King's difficulties | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · passive | King | the next turning | by one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | King | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | overcome | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/64/