The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 60
Pointing to the rock, she showed him an opening just big enough for a man to wriggle through.
Who acts: damsel · What happens: point, show, wriggle · To what, where: rock, opening
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel), 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 | Pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 showed | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pointing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pointing | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 showed | nsubj |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 showed | iobj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opening | det |
| 10 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 opening | amod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 big | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wriggle | mark |
| 18 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 man | acl |
| 19 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 wriggle | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | damsel not said here | the rock | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rock=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show | past | damsel | a opening | rock | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opening=Topic | |||
| 3 | wriggle | to-infinitive | damsel not said here | through property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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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