The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 61
I hurt it when I was trying to root up an oak-tree.’
Who acts: I · What happens: hurt, try, root up · To what, where: foot, oak tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurt | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 trying | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 trying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trying | aux |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hurt | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 root | mark |
| 9 | root | root | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 root | compound:prt |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 oak | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 root | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurt | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | I | foot | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | root up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a oak tree | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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