The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 198
At last her arms grew so tired that when she did manage to get the can properly under the water she had no strength to pull it up, and it rolled to the bottom.
Who acts: arms, Zizi, strength · What happens: grow, manage, get, have, pull up, roll · To what, where: last, water, strength, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, Zizi, strength), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | obl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 manage | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 manage | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 manage | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 manage | aux |
| 12 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tired | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 manage | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 water | aux |
| 17 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 20 water | advmod |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 water | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 strength | det |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pull | mark |
| 26 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 strength | acl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pull | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 pull | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rolled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rolled | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rolled | nsubj |
| 32 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 bottom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bottom | det |
| 35 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rolled | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Zizi's arms | last | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | manage | past · do-support | Zizi | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Zizi not said here | the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Zizi | no strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pull up | to-infinitive | Zizi not said here | strength | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | roll | past | strength | the bottom | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Destination |
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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