The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 3
One might have thought that all would now be well, but no sooner had Lagree been put to fight than our heroine was overwhelmed with hunger and thirst.
Who acts: all · What happens: think, be, put, fight, overwhelm · To what, where: One, Lagree, heroine
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 well | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 well | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 well | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 well | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 well | cop |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sooner | det |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 put | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 16 | Lagree | Lagree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fight | mark |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 put | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 overwhelmed | mark |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heroine | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overwhelmed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 25 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fight | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 hunger | case |
| 27 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overwhelmed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thirst | cc |
| 29 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hunger | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | One | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | all | now | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | Lagree | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | overwhelm | past · passive | our heroine | with hunger and thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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