The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 21
Hermod and Hadvor took but little notice of the Queen and her daughter, but, on the other hand, Hadvor and the Queen’s maid, whose name was Olof, were very friendly, and Olof came often to visit Hadvor in her castle.
Who acts: Hermod, name, maid, Olof · What happens: take, be, come, visit, notice, name · To what, where: little notice, Olof, other hand, Hadvor, castle, Queen
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, name, maid, Olof), 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 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Hadvor | cc |
| 3 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hermod | conj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 notice | cc |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 notice | amod |
| 7 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 notice | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daughter | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 friendly | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 friendly | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friendly | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 22 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 maid | nmod:poss |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Queen | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Hadvor | conj |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Hadvor | case |
| 27 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friendly | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Olof | punct |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Olof | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Olof | cop |
| 32 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 maid | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Olof | punct |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 friendly | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 friendly | advmod |
| 36 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 came | cc |
| 39 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 came | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 visit | mark |
| 43 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 came | advcl |
| 44 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 visit | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 castle | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 castle | nmod:poss |
| 47 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 visit | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hermod and Hadvor | little notice of the Queen and Queen's daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Olof's name | Olof | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Hadvor and the Queen's maid | the other hand | friendly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | Olof | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | Olof not said here | Hadvor | Olof's castle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hadvor=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | notice | the Queen and Queen's daughter | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | name | Olof | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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