The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 81
Hermod said he knew of a Witch there, who was very ready to help anyone, and that the only plan was to go to her.
Who acts: Hermod, only plan · What happens: say, know, be, help · To what, where: anyone, 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 (Hermod, only plan), 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 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Witch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Witch | det |
| 7 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 ready | advmod |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plan | det |
| 21 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plan | amod |
| 22 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hermod | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Hermod | there | of a Witch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of witch=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | anyone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the only plan | Hadvor | go 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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