The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 45
So this time he allowed her to go into it, and she peered about high and low, but she could not look under his hoofs, for he stood much too firmly on his legs for that, and she could not find the youth.
Who acts: Dapplegrim, daughter · What happens: allow, go, peer, not look, stand, not find · To what, where: daughter, stall, legs, youth
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dapplegrim, daughter), 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 | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 peered | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 peered | nsubj |
| 14 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 high | advmod |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peered | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 low | cc |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 high | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 look | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 look | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 look | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 look | advmod |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | conj |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 hoofs | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 look | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 stood | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | conj |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 stood | advmod |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 firmly | advmod |
| 34 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 31 stood | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 legs | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 legs | nmod:poss |
| 37 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stood | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 that | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 stood | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 find | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 find | cc |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 find | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 find | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 find | advmod |
| 45 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 stood | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 youth | det |
| 47 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 find | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | Dapplegrim | daughter | time | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dapplegrim not said here | stall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | peer | past | daughter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not look | could | daughter | under Dapplegrim's hoofs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under hoof=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim's legs | for that; firmly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | |||
| 6 | not find | could | daughter | the youth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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