The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 4

Hermod and Hadvor often played together while they were children, and liked each other so much that while they were still young they secretly plighted their troth to each other.

Who acts: Hermod, King · What happens: play, be, like, plight · To what, where: children, each, troth

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, King), 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	5 played	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Hadvor	cc
3	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hermod	conj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 children	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 children	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 children	cop
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 liked	cc
13	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 played	advcl
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 liked	obj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	13 liked	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 young	mark
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 young	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 young	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 young	cop
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 young	advmod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liked	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 plighted	nsubj
25	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	26 plighted	advmod
26	plighted	plight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 young	acl:relcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 troth	nmod:poss
28	troth	troth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plighted	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 each	case
30	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	26 plighted	obl
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 each	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Hermod and Hadvor			often, together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	King	children			tree rules
3	like	participle	Hermod and Hadvor not said here	each			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot each=Theme
4	is	past	King		still	young property	tree rules
5	plight	past	King	King's troth		to each; secretly 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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