The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 4

She felt as though she should certainly expire, and it was with some difficulty that she dragged herself as far as a pretty little green and white house, which stood at no great distance.

Who acts: Lagree, heroine, pretty house · What happens: feel, expire, be, drag, stand · To what, where: Lagree

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 (Lagree, heroine, pretty house), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 felt	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 expire	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expire	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 expire	aux
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 expire	advmod
8	expire	expire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficulty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 difficulty	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 difficulty	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 difficulty	cop
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 difficulty	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 difficulty	det
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dragged	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dragged	nsubj
18	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 difficulty	advcl
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 dragged	obj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 house	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	29 house	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 house	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 green	amod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pretty	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 white	cc
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pretty	conj
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragged	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 house	acl
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 distance	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 distance	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 distance	amod
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Lagree			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	expire	should	Lagree		certainly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	heroine		with some difficulty	tree rules
4	drag	past	Lagree	Lagree	as a pretty house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
5	stand	past	a pretty house		at no great distance	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location

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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