The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 65
The second girl handed him the sword, but though he tried with all his strength he could not lift it.
Who acts: second girl, hair · What happens: hand, try, not lift · To what, where: sword, hair
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 (second girl, hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | nsubj |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 handed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 tried | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 handed | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 strength | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 strength | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tried | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lift | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lift | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 lift | advmod |
| 20 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 strength | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lift | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | the second girl | the sword | hair | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | hair | with hair's strength | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not lift | could | hair | sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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