The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 76

She was sure this was Hermod, because she heard him speaking to himself about his own condition, and calling to mind Hadvor and other things in the old days.

Who acts: rope, this, Hermod · What happens: be, hear, speak, call, mind, condition · To what, where: Hermod, Hadvor · 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 (rope, this, Hermod), 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 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Hermod	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Hermod	cop
6	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sure	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 heard	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 speaking	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 condition	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 condition	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 condition	amod
18	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calling	cc
21	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 mind	mark
23	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 calling	xcomp
24	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 mind	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 things	cc
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Hadvor	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 days	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 days	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 days	amod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mind	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	rope				sure property	tree rules
2	is a	past	this	Hermod				tree rules
3	hear	past	rope	Hermod				tree rules
4	speak speech: other	gerund	Hermod not said here		Hermod		about Hermod's own condition	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent about condition=Topic
5	call	gerund	rope not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mind	to-infinitive	rope not said here	Hadvor and other things		day		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hadvor=Theme
7	condition		Hermod					nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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