The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 63
This strait she easily crossed, for the shoes kept her up.
Who acts: strait, shoes · What happens: cross, keep up · To what, where: strait
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 (strait, shoes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 strait | det |
| 2 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 crossed | advmod |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 kept | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoes | det |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 kept | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | this strait | easily property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep up | past | the shoes | strait | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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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