The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 13
In her desperation she determined to pull down the church, and thus to destroy her two victims for ever.
Who acts: woman · What happens: determine, pull down, destroy, despair · To what, where: desperation, church, woman
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 desperation | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 desperation | nmod:poss |
| 3 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pull | mark |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 pull | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 destroy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 destroy | cc |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 destroy | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 destroy | mark |
| 15 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 destroy | obj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 victims | nummod |
| 18 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 destroy | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 destroy | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | woman | woman's desperation | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull down | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the church | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | despair | woman | nom desperation «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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