The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 12

Why, your little feet would take an hour to go the distance an ordinary person could do in a minute!’

Who acts: little feet, ordinary person · What happens: take, go, do · To what, where: distance

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little feet, ordinary person), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 distance	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 minute	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 minute	det
21	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	would	your little feet		hour	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive	your little feet not said here	the distance		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	could	a ordinary person	the distance not said here	minute	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality

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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