The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 89
‘She might escape us even now; she is as light as a feather.
Who acts: girl · What happens: escape, be · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | aux |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 now | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 escape | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 light | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 light | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 light | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 light | advmod |
| 12 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 escape | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 feather | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feather | det |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | might | girl | us | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | girl | as a feather; light property | tree rules |
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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