The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 46
As soon as the handkerchief touched the ground a deep, broad river would spring up, which would hinder the witch’s progress.
Who acts: deep broad river, witch · What happens: touch, spring up, hinder, progress · To what, where: ground, progress
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep broad river, witch), 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 | 6 touched | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 handkerchief | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obl |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 river | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deep | punct |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 river | amod |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spring | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 spring | aux |
| 15 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 touched | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 spring | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hinder | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hinder | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hinder | aux |
| 20 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spring | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 progress | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 witch | case |
| 24 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hinder | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the ground | as the handkerchief; soon property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring up | would | a deep broad river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hinder | would | the witch's progress | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | progress | the witch | nom progress «act 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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