The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 55
Then they were hindered by the birch-trees, whose branches almost put their eyes out.
Who acts: birch trees, branches · What happens: hinder, put out · To what, where: children, eyes
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 (birch trees, branches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hindered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hindered | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hindered | aux:pass |
| 4 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 7 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 birch | punct |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hindered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 branches | nmod:poss |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | nsubj |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hindered | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hindered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hinder | past · passive | the birch trees | children = child | then | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | put out | present | branches | children's eyes | almost, out property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
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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