The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 62
She now made her way down to the sea, to where she knew there was the shortest distance over to the island in which Hermod was.
Who acts: Hadvor, shortest distance · What happens: make down, know, be · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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, shortest distance), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 knew | case |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 knew | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 18 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 distance | amod |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 island | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 distance | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 was | obl |
| 26 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 island | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make down | past | Hadvor | Princess | now | to the sea; way obl:unmarked; down property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | ||
| 2 | know | past | Hadvor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the shortest distance to the island | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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