The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 34
Hadvor now became still sadder than before at the thought of the marriage destined for her, and entreated Olof to think of some plan to save her.
Who acts: Hadvor, thought · What happens: become, destine, entreat, think, save · To what, where: Olof
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 (Hadvor, thought), 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 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 became | advmod |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 sadder | advmod |
| 5 | sadder | sad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 thought | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 thought | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 thought | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thought | det |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sadder | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 marriage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 marriage | det |
| 13 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destined | obl |
| 14 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 destined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entreated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entreated | cc |
| 19 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 20 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 entreated | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 think | mark |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 entreated | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 plan | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 plan | det |
| 25 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 think | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 save | mark |
| 27 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 think | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 save | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Hadvor | now | sad property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | destine | past | the thought not said here | of the marriage; for Hadvor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | entreat | past | Hadvor not said here | Olof | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent olof=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Hadvor not said here | of some plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | Hadvor not said here | Olof | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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