The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 73
The belt she put on, the rope enabled her to climb up the cliff, and the clew led her on till she came to the mouth of a cave, which was not very big.
Who acts: belt, rope, Hadvor, clew, cave · What happens: put on, enable, climb up, lead, come, not be · To what, where: Hadvor, cliff, rope, mouth
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 (belt, rope, Hadvor, 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 belt | det |
| 2 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enabled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enabled | nsubj |
| 9 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 enabled | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 climb | mark |
| 12 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enabled | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 climb | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cliff | det |
| 15 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climb | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clew | det |
| 19 | clew | clew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 mouth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mouth | det |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cave | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cave | det |
| 31 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mouth | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 big | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 big | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 big | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 big | advmod |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 big | advmod |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cave | amod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past | the belt | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enable | past | the rope | Hadvor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb up | to-infinitive | Hadvor not said here | the cliff | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the clew | rope | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | rope | the mouth of a cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | a cave | big 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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