The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 10
There he laid his ship to, and went on shore all alone.
Who acts: Hermod · What happens: lay, go · To what, where: ship, shore
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ship | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 laid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 alone | advmod |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Hermod | Hermod's ship | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Result | |||
| 2 | go | past | Hermod not said here | shore | alone property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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