The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 31
His feet were torn and bleeding, and he could only hold on now with his hands.
Who acts: youth · What happens: tear, hold on · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | aux:pass |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bleeding | cc |
| 6 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 torn | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hold | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hold | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hold | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 hold | advmod |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 torn | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hold | compound:prt |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hold | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hold | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | youth's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold on | could | youth | now | with youth's hands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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