The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 38
He made no struggle to get higher, for all his strength had left him, and seeing no hope he calmly awaited death.
Who acts: boy · What happens: make, get, leave, see, await · To what, where: struggle, strength, hope, death
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 struggle | det |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 strength | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seeing | cc |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 hope | det |
| 20 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seeing | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 awaited | nsubj |
| 22 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 23 awaited | advmod |
| 23 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hope | acl:relcl |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 awaited | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | boy | no struggle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Product | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | boy not said here | high property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | boy's strength | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | boy not said here | no hope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | await | past | boy | death | calmly property | tree rules |
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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