The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 89

The grateful youth hastened across as soon as the moat was dry, but found it impossible to penetrate the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church.

Who acts: moat, grateful youth · What happens: hasten, be, find, penetrate · To what, where: grateful youth, moat, thick walls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moat, grateful youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	nsubj
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 youth	acl
5	across	across	ADV	_	4 hastened	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hastened	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 dry	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moat	det
10	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dry	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dry	cop
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soon	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	obj
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 found	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 penetrate	mark
19	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 impossible	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 walls	det
21	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 walls	amod
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 penetrate	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 doors	cc
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doors	amod
25	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 doors	compound
26	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 walls	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 church	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 church	det
29	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 doors	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hasten	participle		the grateful youth not said here	across, soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the moat		dry property	tree rules
3	find	past	the grateful youth	moat	impossible property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	penetrate	to-infinitive		the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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