The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 72
The rope hung down from the cliff, and the clew and belt lay beside her.
Who acts: rope, clew · What happens: hang down, lay · To what, where: cliff
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 (rope, clew), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 hung | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cliff | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clew | det |
| 11 | clew | clew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 belt | cc |
| 13 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clew | conj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang down | past | the rope | the cliff | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lay | present | the clew and belt | beside rope | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination |
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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