The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 15
As soon as the Fairy saw this she retreated to some distance from the building, so as not to be hurt herself by its fall.
Who acts: Fairy, church, fall · What happens: see, retreat, not hurt · To what, where: this, church
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 (Fairy, church, fall), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 retreated | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 retreated | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 retreated | nsubj |
| 9 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retreated | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 building | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 building | det |
| 15 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurt | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 hurt | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hurt | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hurt | aux:pass |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 retreated | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 hurt | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 fall | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fall | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Fairy | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | retreat | past | church | to some distance from the building; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not hurt | to-infinitive · passive | building's fall | church | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient |
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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